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Rio Arriba County
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county in New Mexico, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- New Mexico
- Named after
- location on the upper Rio Grande ( río arriba means "upriver" in Spanish)
- Seat
- Tierra Amarilla
- Largest city
- Española
- County manager
- Jeremy G. Maestas
- Total
- 5,896 sq mi (15,270 km )
- Land
- 5,861 sq mi (15,180 km )
- Water
- 35 sq mi (91 km ) 0.6%
- Estimate 2025
- 39,832
- Density
- 6.887/sq mi (2.659/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−7 ( Mountain )
- Summer dst
- UTC−6 ( MDT )
- Congressional district
- 3rd
- Website
- www .rio-arriba .org
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Rio Grande
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- New Mexico
- Contains
- Dulce
- Capital
- Tierra Amarilla
- Population
- 39465
- Area
- 15171
- Shares border with
- Los Alamos County
- Official website
- www.rio-arriba.org
- Image
- Rio Arriba CCH.jpg
- Households
- 13035
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- Commons category
- Rio Arriba County, New Mexico
- topic's main category
- Category:Rio Arriba County, New Mexico
- inception
- 1852-00-00
- topic has template
- Template:Rio Arriba County, New Mexico
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Rio Arriba County, New Mexico
- water as percent of area
- 0.6
- native label
- Rio Arriba County
- per capita income
- 23819
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Encyclopedic overview
Rio Arriba County (Spanish: Condado de Río Arriba) is a county in the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of the 2020 census, the population was 40,363. Its county seat is Tierra Amarilla. Its northern border is the Colorado state line.
Rio Arriba County comprises the Española, New Mexico, micropolitan statistical area, which is also included in the Albuquerque–Santa Fe–Los Alamos combined statistical area.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rio Arriba County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.