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Plan a Road Trip > Explore America > New Mexico > Socorro |
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Latitude/Longitude
34.02° /-106.62°
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HIGH: 64
LOW: 24
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A one-time silver and agriculture center that now relies on education as its economic basis, Socorro is the home of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. The school's Mineral Museum has some 10,000 mineral specimens from around the world. You can take a walking tour of the town's Victorian-era neighborhoods and visit the Mission of San Miguel near the pleasant central plaza.
Fifty miles west of Socorro, you can see the stunning VLA (Very Large Array) Radio Telescope. The visitors center offers fascinating insight into the workings and discoveries of these 27 synchronized dishes that produce images of stars and quasars from deepest space.
A few miles south of Socorro, the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge provides habitat for a vast array of mammals, reptiles, and birds among its 57,000 acres of fields and marshes. Along the refuge's 15-mile driving route, you'll find viewing platforms and towers, short nature trails, and longer day-hiking trails.
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