Understand
The term "North Central New Mexico" broadly applies to the region bounded on the:
North, by the Colorado state line;
East, by the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, southernmost range of the Rocky Mountains, and their foothills;
South, by Santa Fe and environs -- larger Albuquerque is part of the Central region;
West, by the Continental Divide, which follows the Nacimiento Mountains a minor range of the Rockies and high country of the Colorado Plateau, more or less along US Highway 550.
