![]() See here a panoramic view of the caldera. ![]() The highlight of the day was the Valles Caldera, a spectacular volcanic crater over 20 km wide, now a national preserve managed by the National Park Service since 2015. Michael had indeed planned a day trip for Sunday with another IOS member who lives in Santa Fe, Anna Forester, in the Jemez Mountains to the north of Albuquerque and near Los Alamos. We were not to leave for Southern New Mexico till Monday morning. In any case, we were just three of us to meet with Michael and Kari Meléndrez in Los Lunas on Saturday, August 19: Rebecca Dellinger from North Carolina, Ryan Russell (again he must like the place) from Missouri, and myself. Even the Chihuahuan desert grasslands occur at relatively high elevations. What struck me is that the southern section of the state is also forested and mountainous. In other words, New Mexico is big, the fourth largest state in the US and not many people live there. New Mexico has about 2 million inhabitants while Belgium has 11 million. In comparison, Belgium covers 30,528 km² (just a bit smaller than Maryland). New Mexico has a surface area of 314,460 km 2 .
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