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Curandera Garden

Curandera Garden from directly overhead

Curandera Garden is a garden in New Mexico, at a modelled elevation of 1,510 m. Sandia Crest stands 3,255 m to the east-northeast, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is High Desert Rose Garden, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Historic Route 66 passes 0.3 miles off.

honors the centuries-old traditions of folk healers in New Mexico; represents a landscape from which a curander@ would draw remedies; garden features native New Mexico & exotic plants; highlights the multi-cultural influences in curanderismo

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Albuquerque BioPark
Access
Yes

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates35.09458, -106.68331

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • High Desert Rose Garden: 0.0 mi
  • Colors Path: 0.0 mi
  • Curandera Garden: 0.1 mi
  • Albuquerque BioPark Botanic Garden: 0.1 mi
  • New Mexico Habitats: 0.1 mi
Attractions
Peaks
Artworks: 53
  • The Rescue: 0.2 mi
  • Clyde & Carrie Tingley: 0.8 mi
  • Cervantes: 0.9 mi
  • Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout: 1.0 mi
  • American Flag Roof: 1.1 mi
Museums: 30
Historic sites: 29
Picnic sites: 28
Springs: 20
  • Embudo Spring: 12.4 mi
  • Artesian Well: 12.6 mi
  • Oso Springs: 13.1 mi
  • Bear Canyon Spring: 13.3 mi
  • Three Gun Spring: 13.8 mi
Gardens: 15
Nature reserves: 6
  • Trailhead: 2.1 mi
  • Paseo de la Mesa Open Space: 5.8 mi
  • Rio Rancho Bosque Preserve South Entrance: 14.0 mi
  • Rio Rancho Bosque Nature Preserve: 14.9 mi
  • Sandia Mountain Natural History Center: 17.3 mi
Ghost towns: 1
Waterfalls: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 23.4 miles of Curandera Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Sandia CrestENE 59°3,255 m15.4 mi
North Sandia PeakNE 53°3,184 m16.1 mi
The NeedleNE 54°3,127 m15.7 mi
The ThumbENE 60°3,081 m15.0 mi
The ChimneyENE 58°3,051 m15.3 mi
TombstoneNE 56°3,048 m15.6 mi
JawboneENE 65°3,014 m15.4 mi
South Sandia PeakE 83°2,982 m14.4 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1118:4519:19
June solstice05:5419:4720:25
September equinox06:5518:3219:05
December solstice07:1216:2016:59

Local time (America/Denver).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F374149576574787669574435

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — RIO Grande Nature CTR, 3 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Wood Duck582 obs
  • Mallard535 obs
  • Canada Goose470 obs
  • Pond Slider362 obs
  • North American Porcupine325 obs
  • silverleaf nightshade321 obs
  • Southwestern Fence Lizard297 obs
  • American Coot282 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element node/6414855543

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