Queen Isabella I Memorial
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Queen Isabella I Memorial is a historic site, at a recorded elevation of 5 m. Gantt Hill stands 156 m to the west-northwest, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Romulo Gallegos, a historic site less than a tenth of a mile away. George Washington Memorial Parkway passes 1.3 miles off. 36 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
Queen Isabella, also known as Queen Isabella (1451–1504), is an outdoor sculpture of Isabella I of Castile, installed outside the Pan American Union Building of the Organization of American States at 17th Street and Constitution Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., in the United States. The statue, sculpted by Spanish sculptor José Luis Sánchez (1926-2018), shows Isabella wearing a crown and robes decorated with the heraldic devices of Castile, León, Aragon, and Navarre. She holds a large pomegranate (the symbol of Granada) with a dove in the center. The statue was gifted by the Institute of Hispanic Culture, a Madrid-based institution of the Spanish State, on April 14, 1966, the 475th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's first sighting of the Americas; Isabella was chosen as she had sponsored Columbus's voyage. Indigenous rights activists defaced the statue with items of indigenous Andean Pollera dress in 2022 and called for it to be removed due to Isabella's role in igniting colonization, the genocide of indigenous Americans, and the Atlantic slave trade.
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Wikidata Q23137416, matched on coordinates and name (1 m apart).
What the record says
- Elevation
- 5 m
How to reach it
- 1.3 mi off the George Washington Memorial Parkway, National
- 5.1 mi off the Booth's Escape
- 7.0 mi off the Old Georgetown Pike
- 5.8 mi off the Star-Spangled Banner Byway
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
- Romulo Gallegos: 0.0 mi
- Teresa De La Parra: 0.0 mi
- US Capitol West Gatehouse: 0.0 mi
- Jose Cecilio del Valle Memorial: 0.0 mi
- Gabriela Mistral: 0.0 mi
- Inuksuk: 0.0 mi
- Armenian Earthquake: 0.2 mi
- Atlantic Pavilion: 0.2 mi
- Canova Lions: 0.2 mi
- Major General John A. Rawlins Statue: 0.2 mi
- Lockkeeper's House: 0.1 mi
- White House Peace Vigil: 0.5 mi
- Almas Temple: 0.8 mi
- Smithsonian National Carousel: 0.9 mi
- Lock 0: 1.1 mi
- DAR Museum: 0.1 mi
- Art Museum of the Americas: 0.1 mi
- Interior Museum: 0.2 mi
- Octagon House: 0.3 mi
- Dacor Bacon House Museum: 0.4 mi
- Artigas Park: 0.1 mi
- Bolivar Park: 0.1 mi
- Constitution Gardens: 0.2 mi
- The Ellipse: 0.2 mi
- Robert Latham Owen Park: 0.3 mi
- German-American Friendship Garden: 0.2 mi
- Big Red One: 0.2 mi
- White House Kitchen Garden: 0.2 mi
- Children's Garden: 0.3 mi
- Rose Garden: 0.3 mi
- Picnic site for Rose park: 1.3 mi
- Picnic Grove 29: 3.1 mi
- Picnic Grove 1: 3.3 mi
- Picnic Grove 2 South: 3.4 mi
- Picnic Grove 2 South: 3.6 mi
- Roaches Run Waterfowl Sanctuary: 2.0 mi
- Fort Bennet Park and Palisades Trail: 2.2 mi
- Reservation 630: 3.3 mi
- Soapstone Valley: 3.8 mi
- Potomac Overlook Regional Park: 3.9 mi
- Peters Hill: 0.6 mi
- Lees Hill: 2.0 mi
- Mackeys Hill: 2.2 mi
- Jackson Hill: 2.2 mi
- Camp Hill: 2.5 mi
- Takoma Spring: 5.9 mi
- Silver Spring: 6.7 mi
- Clean Drinking Manor Spring: 7.5 mi
- Indian Springs: 10.8 mi
- Sandy Spring: 17.1 mi
- Rosier Bluff: 8.3 mi
- Indian Queen Bluff: 9.6 mi
- Indian Head: 21.2 mi
- Quartz Rock Outcropping: 22.4 mi
- Quartz Rock Outcropping: 22.4 mi
- Fishing Shore: 3.3 mi
- Lake Barcroft Beach: 6.7 mi
- Purplehorse Beach: 12.4 mi
- Sycamore Beach: 12.4 mi
- Stubblefield Falls: 9.9 mi
- Scott's Run Falls: 10.2 mi
- Great Falls: 13.6 mi
- Coe Creek: 20.9 mi
- Wilson: 24.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Queen Isabella I Memorial. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gantt Hill | WNW 282° | 156 m | 10.6 mi |
| Hunting Hill | NNW 327° | 156 m | 15.8 mi |
| Black Hill | NW 326° | 148 m | 24.6 mi |
| Mount Daniel | W 272° | 144 m | 7.7 mi |
| Minor's Hill | W 277° | 140 m | 6.4 mi |
| Freedom Hill | W 281° | 140 m | 11.1 mi |
| Prout Hill | W 264° | 137 m | 8.3 mi |
| Upton Hill | WSW 257° | 125 m | 5.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:13 | 18:45 | 19:20 |
| June solstice | 05:44 | 19:58 | 20:38 |
| September equinox | 06:57 | 18:32 | 19:07 |
| December solstice | 07:24 | 16:08 | 16:50 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Jun, Aug–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 38 | 40 | 48 | 58 | 67 | 76 | 81 | 79 | 72 | 61 | 50 | 42 |
| Precip in | 2.9 | 2.6 | 3.5 | 3.2 | 3.9 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 3.3 | 3.9 | 3.7 | 2.9 | 3.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Washington Reagan Natl AP, 3 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/358958085
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