Ghost Ranch
Ghost Ranch is a 21,000-acre (85 km2) retreat and education center located close to the village of Abiquiú in Rio Arriba County in north central New Mexico, United States. It served as the summer home and studio of Georgia O'Keeffe in the later 20th century, as well as the subject of many of her paintings.
Ghost Ranch
El Rancho de los Brujos | |
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| Coordinates: 36°19′47.24″N 106°28′26.4″W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | New Mexico |
| County | Rio Arriba |
| Website | www |
U.S. National Natural Landmark | |
| Designated | 1975 |
Ghost Ranch is also known for a remarkable concentration of fossils, most notably that of the theropod dinosaur Coelophysis, of which it has been estimated that nearly a thousand individuals have been preserved in a quarry at Ghost Ranch.
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