Salt Lakes and Laguna del Perro

Salt Lakes and Laguna del Perro is a New Mexico historical marker in Torrance County.

US 60 -- mile marker between mile markers 225 and 226 -- between mile markers 225 and 226,north side of road pull-off · location approximate

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(SIDE 1) The Pedernal Hills form the eastern edge of Spanish New Mexico’s 17th-century “Salinas Jurisdiction.” Pueblo Indians used salt from these salinas in trade with Plains Indians. This salt was also prized by the Spaniards because of its use in silver processing for the rich Chihuahuan mines farther south in Mexico. (SIDE 2) Numerous salt ponds and lakes, of which Laguna del Pero is the largest, occur in lowest part of Estancia Basin, closed depression between Manzano Mountains to west and low Pedernal Hills to east. Even Paleoindians mined salt. Basin was filled by 150-foot-deep lake in late Pleistocene time. Elevation 6,110 feet.

The Historic Preservation Division notes that its marker spreadsheet may be out of date and in places inaccurate, and that it does not know where every marker now stands. These pages carry the spreadsheet’s record; a marker listed here may have moved or may no longer stand. the program’s page ↗

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Historical maps covering this location

1876 · Territory of New Mexico (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1883 · New Mexico. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1889 · New Mexico. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1927 · State of New Mexico. General Land Office. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1978 · Laguna Del Perro South, New Mexico (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Laguna Del Perro South, New Mexico, 1978, covering the location of Salt Lakes and Laguna del Perro, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Laguna Del Perro South, New Mexico, 1978, covering this location. USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection. The pin is ours and the location is approximate.

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Marker data: Official Scenic Historic Markers program, New Mexico Historic Preservation Division, Department of Cultural AffairsMarker texts come from the Division’s published marker spreadsheet, reproduced with the Division’s written permission. Where that spreadsheet records a coordinate, the pin is the Division’s own; where it records only a highway and mile marker, an address, a junction or a named place, or where its coordinate contradicts its own highway, mile and county, the pin is ours, resolved on public road and place data and marked approximate.

Salt Lakes and Laguna del Perro

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