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Places worth the detour in New Mexico

Detourmap lists 56 places in New Mexico, United States, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Carlsbad Caverns National Park. 49 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.

Archaeological36 Nature20
Places
56
Oldest
San Gabriel de Yungue-Ouinge 1598
Little known
49 of 56
Share of United States
1%

New Mexico 56

All 56, best known first.

Elsewhere in United States

California463 Alaska334 Washington258 Wyoming198 Oregon187 Utah179 Colorado154 Arizona144 New York137 Florida107 Texas106 North Carolina104

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Questions about this page

What is the best known place worth the detour in New Mexico?

Carlsbad Caverns National Park, 20th century. United States National Park in the Guadalupe Mountains in southeastern New Mexico. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.

How many places worth the detour are there in New Mexico?

56: 36 archaeological & historic sites and 20 nature & landscapes. 49 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.

What is the oldest place on this map in New Mexico?

San Gabriel de Yungue-Ouinge, dated to 1598. 14 of the 56 places here carry a founding date at all.

What counts as New Mexico here?

Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in New Mexico if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. New Mexico is a first-level division of United States, the same level as a state or a province.

Where does this information come from?

Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.