![]() ![]() Sandía means watermelon in Spanish, and is popularly believed to be a reference to the reddish color of the mountains at sunset. The highest point is Sandia Crest, 10,678 feet (3,255 m). This is largely within the Cibola National Forest and protected as the Sandia Mountain Wilderness. The mountains are just due south of the southern terminus of the Rocky Mountains, and are part of the Sandia–Manzano Mountains. The Sandia Mountains ( Southern Tiwa: Posu gai hoo-oo, Keres: Tsepe, Navajo: Dził Nááyisí Tewa: O:ku:p’į, Northern Tiwa: Kep’íanenemą Towa: Kiutawe, Zuni: Chibiya Yalanne) are a mountain range located in Bernalillo and Sandoval counties, immediately to the east of the city of Albuquerque in New Mexico in the southwestern United States. Location of the Sandia Mountains within New Mexico ![]()
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