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Truchas topographic map
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Truchas
On March 18, 1754, New Mexican governor Tomás Vélez Cachupin awarded the Nuestro Señora del Rosario, San Fernando y Santiago del Rio de las Truchas Grant, to eleven residents of the nearby settlements of Chimayo and Pueblo Quemado. The grantees had asserted their claim to the area of the grant during the two previous years by constructing an acequia (irrigation canal) and planting crops. The grantees were small farmers. The area of the Truchas land grant was later measured to be 14,786.58 acres (5,983.92 ha). The early settlers established their village on a high shoulder of the Sangre de Cristo mountains at an elevation of 8,000 ft (2,400 m). With labor and hand tools, they build an acequia several miles long to bring water down from the flanks of Truchas Peak to irrigate their crops. Maize would not grow in the cool climate at this altitude so wheat and livestock were their main crops.
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Name: Truchas topographic map, elevation, terrain.
Average elevation: 7,953 ft
Minimum elevation: 7,267 ft
Maximum elevation: 8,409 ft
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