Gallina Community Cemetery in New Mexico

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Get directions Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, USA

Coordinates: 36.23194, -106.85682
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This Northern New Mexico cemetery has no cell phone coverage, but is in a small creek-watered shallow valley in the mountains and is quite lovely, whether you're living or dead. Gallina Cemetery is approximately two acres, in a rectangular shape, running E-W. The W end is adjacent to County Road 414, and is easily accessed. There is room for a car or two to be parked off the road. The pedestrian gate is an open "V" stock-preventative metal pipe gate, near the NW corner. The vehicle gate is S of the pedestrian gate.

I noticed more than a usual number of metal crib-enclosed graves with only the initials of the interred and birth and death years on one end, in metal. When we visited in June 2020, a local resident explained that maintenance to the cemetery is usually performed by the local Penitentes, the Morada being about a quarter mile S of the cemetery, just off 414. The recognizable graves are closely placed in middle third of the cemetery. The E end might possibly be too close to the Gallina Rio for safe internment, or it might simply be the area where older graves are located whose markings have been claimed by time and elements.