Picuris Pueblo, NM Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
9,850 ft 3,005 m9,160 ft 2,790 m8,810 ft 2,685 m8,120 ft 2,475 m7,430 ft 2,265 m7,080 ft 2,160 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official reservation boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Picuris Pueblo averages about 7,840 ft (2,390 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 7,080 ft on the west side to 9,850 ft on the northeast side.
Average elevation
7,840 ft 2,390 m
all land inside the reservation
Highest
9,850 ft 3,005 m
on the northeast side
Lowest
7,080 ft 2,160 m
on the west side
Picuris Pueblo spans about 2,770 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 7,840 ft2,390 m |
| Highest point Inside the reservation, on the northeast side | 9,850 ft3,005 m |
| Lowest point Inside the reservation, on the west side | 7,080 ft2,160 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.3 mi south to north through Peñasco.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Reservation in New Mexico, United States (U.S. Census Bureau)
- Population
- 1,623 2020 Census
- Land area
- 27.4 sq mi
- Density
- 59 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Mountain UTC−7 / −6
- Landform region
- Southern Rocky Mountains
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
⤓ Download this map
WebP, 1200 × 900. Free to use: credit “ElevationOf.com” with a link to this page.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearest tribal lands nearest, by average
- Taos Pueblo8,640 ft
- Picuris Pueblo7,840 ft
- Nambe Pueblo6,650 ft
- Tesuque Pueblo6,570 ft
- Pueblo of Pojoaque5,960 ft
- Ohkay Owingeh5,750 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Tribal lands in New Mexico2nd highest of 24
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Cerro Blanco, Taos County7,940 ft
All 5 towns in the reservation by typical elevation
- Peñasco7,630 ft
- Vadito7,500 ft
- Chamisal7,390 ft
- Picuris Pueblo7,340 ft
- Rio Lucio7,310 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census reservation boundary (TIGER/Line AIANNH, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Name: the Census Bureau's legal or statistical area name, as published; the nation's own name may differ.
- Population: 2020 Census residents of the blocks inside the boundary.
- Nearby Places: nearest tribal lands and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the reservation with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the reservation.
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.