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2023 Map of Bernalillo

Name: 2023 Topographic Map of Bernalillo
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2023
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2023

About this map

Bernalillo and the surrounding Rio Grande valley are depicted in this contemporary record of a landscape defined by centuries of movement. The historic route of El Camino Real remains a prominent corridor, paralleling the Rio Grande as it flows past the ancestral lands of Santa Ana Pueblo and the Pueblo of Sandia Village. This intersection of traditional pueblo sites and modern residential expansion in Rio Rancho and Placitas highlights the unique spatial continuity of the region.

Detailed water management systems are visible through an extensive network of traditional acequias and modern drains, such as the Bernalillo Acequia, Sandia Acequia, and the Albuquerque Main Canal. These features, alongside the Sandoval County Judicial Complex and the sacred ground of Our Lady of Sorrows Cem, illustrate the complex layering of civic infrastructure, irrigation heritage, and communal history within the Cibola National Forest foothills.