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About a thousand years ago, the Rio Grande flowed between Second and Twelfth Streets.

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The Sandia Mountains encompass four different life zones.

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The edge of the east mesa is at Central Avenue and Yale Boulevard.

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Several hundred thousand years ago, the east and west mesas formed a broad plain through which the Rio Grande flowed about 250 feet or 24 meters higher than its present level.

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Flow of Rio Grande Varied

About a thousand years ago, the Rio Grande flowed between Second and Twelfth Streets.

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