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Rociada, New Mexico

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Country
  
United States

County
  
San Miguel

GNIS 912004
  
912004

Zip code
  
87742

Population
  
609 (2010)

State
  
New Mexico

Time zone
  
Mountain (MST) (UTC-7)

Elevation
  
2,286 m

Local time
  
Monday 4:25 PM

Area code
  
505

Rociada, New Mexico

Weather
  
22°C, Wind W at 19 km/h, 14% Humidity

Rociada is a settled area in San Miguel County, New Mexico located 27 miles northwest of Las Vegas, the county seat. One of the valleys of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains with the Manuelitas Creek running through it, Rociada actually comprises two villages, Upper and Lower Rociada. Several nearby villages such as Pendaries and Gascon, although technically in Mora County also use the Rociada postal address. Rociada's name means "sprinkled with dew" in Spanish, reflecting its relatively mild moist climate in the summer compared to the other hot and arid areas of Northern New Mexico.

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Map of Rociada, NM, USA

Notable residents

  • Milnor Rudulph (1826-1887) died in Rociada where he lived in his later years and taught in the village school. He had been Speaker of the New Mexico Territory Legislature to which was elected in 1870 and led the inquest into the death of Billy the Kid in 1881.
  • Nepomuceno Segura (1855–?) lived in Rociada for part of his life. He was one of the delegates to the New Mexico Constitutional Convention of 1910 and had been the translator of the first statute laws of Colorado in 1876.
  • José Albino Baca (1876–1924), the 5th Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico and his wife Marguerite Pendaries Baca (1876–1971), the 6th Secretary of State of New Mexico had a large ranch in Rociada. Their daughter, Emilie, who grew up on the ranch, later married Patrick Tracy Lowell Putnam (1904-1953), an American anthropologist who spent twenty-five years living among the Mbuti pygmies in central Africa. Another daughter, Consuelo, was the second wife of writer and anthropologist Oliver La Farge.
  • Antonia Apodaca (1923–), a musician and songwriter known for her performances of the traditional Hispano folk music of New Mexico, was born and raised in Rociada.

    • References

    Rociada, New Mexico Wikipedia
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