Pueblo Peak is a summit in Taos County, New Mexico, United States.
Description Pueblo Peak is part of the Taos Mountains which are a subset of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, and it ranks as the 27th-highest summit in New Mexico. The mountain is located northeast of the city of Taos and six miles southwest of Wheeler Peak, the highest point in the state. Precipitation runoff from the mountain drains into tributaries of the Rio Grande, which is approximately to the west. Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises over above Lucero Canyon in 1.45 mile (2.33 km). The mountain is especially sacred to the people of Taos Pueblo,John Peabody Harrington, The Ethnogeography of the Tewa Indians, 1916, Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology, p. 178. and it is named after their pueblo.Robert Julyan (1996), The Place Names of New Mexico, University of New Mexico Press, , p. 277. However, they call the mountain "Maxwaluna" which means "The High One."Studying the Mission Indians of California and the Taos of New Mexico, J.P. Harrington, 1929, Explorations and Field-work of the Smithsonian Institution in 1928, Smithsonian Institution, p. 178. This mountain's toponym has been officially adopted by the United States Board on Geographic Names.
Climate
According to the Köppen climate classification system, Pueblo Peak has an alpine climate with cold, snowy winters, and cool to warm summers. Due to its altitude, it receives precipitation all year, as snow in winter and as thunderstorms in summer. Climbers can expect afternoon rain, hail, and lightning from the seasonal monsoon in late July and August.
See also List of mountain peaks of New Mexico
References
External links Pueblo Peak: weather forecast