Tularosa Basin
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Acadia NP SE Maine 1919 48,419 (19,603) Mountain and coast scenery.
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Tularosa Basin,
desert basin, c.6,500 sq mi (16,800 sq km), S N.Mex. and W Tex. From Texas east of El Paso the basin, an area of interior drainage, extends c.170 mi (275 km) to the north, and ranges c.25–60 mi (40–100 km) across between the Sierra Oscura, San Andres, and Organ mts. (W) and the Sacramento and Jicarilla mts. (E). The Malpais lava field is in the north of the basin, and the gypsum sand dunes of White Sands National Monument (see National Parks and MonumentsNational Parks and MonumentsNational Parks
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Acadia NP SE Maine 1919 48,419 (19,603) Mountain and coast scenery.
..... Click the link for more information. , table) are in the central basin, as is Holloman Air Force Base; much of the western basin is part of White Sands Missile Range and much of the southern section is included in Fort Bliss. Alamogordo is the largest city.
People of the Folsom cultureFolsom culture
, a group of Paleo-Indians (see Americas, antiquity and prehistory of the) known through artifacts first excavated (1926) near Folsom, E of Raton, N.Mex. The artifacts, including chipped flint points known as Folsom points and a variety of other stone tools, were
..... Click the link for more information. occupied the area around Lake Lucero in White Sands National Monument from about 9000 to 8000 B.C., and the region subsequently was inhabited by various populations until it was deserted c.1350 following a major drought. When the Spanish arrived in the mid-17th cent., the ancestors of the Apache lived in surrounding mountainous areas, and Apache resistance delayed significant settlement until after the Civil War. Subsequent cattle ranching led to overgrazing, and the replacement of grasslands by desert shrubland.