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Taos
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town in and county sear of Taos County, New Mexico, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- New Mexico
- County
- Taos
- Named after
- Taos Pueblo
- Type
- Mayor-Council-Manager
- Mayor
- Pascualito M. Maestas
- Total
- 6.04 sq mi (15.64 km )
- Land
- 6.04 sq mi (15.64 km )
- Water
- 0 sq mi (0.00 km )
- Elevation
- 6,969 ft (2,124 m)
- Density
- 1,072.1/sq mi (413.94/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−7 ( Mountain (MST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC−6 (MDT)
- Fips code
- 35-76200
- Website
- taosnm .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Taos, NM | Official Website
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county seat
- Official name
- Taos
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Taos County
- Population
- 6474
- Area
- 15.581032
- Elevation
- 2124
- Time zone
- Mountain Time Zone
- Capital of
- Taos County
- Shares border with
- Taos Pueblo
- Official website
- www.taosgov.com
- Image
- Taos, New Mexico - 22641403088.jpg
- Households
- 2719
- Dialing code
- 575
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- twinned administrative body
- Xalisco
- Commons category
- Taos, New Mexico
- topic's main category
- Category:Taos, New Mexico
- postal code
- 87571
- time of earliest written record
- 1615-00-00
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Taos, New Mexico
- water as percent of area
- 0
- inception
- 1795-00-00
- per capita income
- 30654
- native label
- Taos
- P12749
- Rainer Knaak
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Encyclopedic overview
Taos (/taʊs/) is a town in Taos County, in the north-central region of New Mexico. Situated between the Rio Grande Gorge and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, it is located roughly 50 miles south of the Colorado border. Taos serves as the county seat of Taos County, of which it is the largest municipality, with an estimated population of 6,567 as of 2021.
The town of Taos was incorporated in 1934, although humans have lived in the adjacent Taos Pueblo—a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the town's namesake—for roughly a millennium; the town's name derives from the native Taos language meaning "(place of) red willows". Initially founded by Spanish colonists in 1615 as Don Fernando de Taos, it was only intermittently occupied until the late 18th century, due to recurring conflict between European and indigenous peoples, most notably the Pueblo Revolt.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Taos” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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