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The SacramentoMountains are located in Otero County just to the east and southeast of Alamogordo.
The SacramentoMountains are truly a 'sky island' and biotic diversity is high due to the differences in elevation, slope, temperature, and precipitation.
The southern extension of the Sacramentos provides a critical wildlife corridor, or biotic linkage, between the SacramentoMountains to the north and the Guadalupe Mountains and greater Otero Mesa area to the south and southeast.
The SacramentoMountains are on the east side of Alamogordo in Otero county of southern New Mexico.
From this ridge the mountains slope gently down to the east, merging gradually with the plains to the west of Artesia.
The rock strata in the Sacramentos were originally contiguous with those of the San Andres Mountains on the other side of the Tularosa Basin, and have been separated because of down-faulting of the basin.
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