GRF272 Española Chili Line Traditional Cache
GRF272 Española Chili Line
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Guard Rail Fun! A nice quick park and grab micro.
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Española
Española was founded as a railroad village, incorporated as a city in 1925. The city is situated in an area Don Juan de Oñate declared a capital for Spain in 1598. Española has been called the first capital city in America. Oñate arrived in the Española Valley on July 11, 1598 at the confluence of the Chama River and the Rio Grande, where he established a camp at a place then called Yunque-Yunque. He created a Spanish settlement in an area already inhabited by the indigenous descendants of the Anasazi. The treatment of the natives was typical of the Conquistadores at that time, with enslavement and brutality being a mainstay, despite the initially warm welcome.
The current town of Española was founded in 1879-80, with the introduction of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad. In 1880, the famous railroad which ran predominantly through the Rocky mountain region, announced a route extension of its narrow gauge into Northern New Mexico. The line was built along the Rio Grande, later known as the Chili Line. The route extend into what today is the downtown Española area, and the railroad began selling lots of property in the area. Many residents of the nearby town of Santa Fe were not happy with the routing decision, and failure of connection to them. The Española station included an engine facility station along with a roundhouse and turntable so they could service the locomotives. The railroad would later reach Santa Fe to connect with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in 1887.
Today Espanola is an economic, agricultural, and civic hub of northern New Mexico. The population has grown from 150 in 1880 to around 10,000 today. Española is over a mile high at an elevation of around 5,595 feet (1,705 m) and according to a 2011 annual report by the American Lung Association, the Santa Fe-Espanola CSA (metropolitan area) has the cleanest Ozone layer in the country (ranked #1), cleanest area in the country for 24-hour particle pollution (ranked #1) and cleanest area in the country for annual particle pollution (ranked #2).
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