Los Alamos
Los Alamos is a small town in northern New Mexico, about an hour northwest of Santa Fe. Its claim to fame is the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where Oppenheimer and other physicists created the world's first atomic bomb during World War II.Photo: Dschwen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Dschwen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 12,000 residents
- Description: census-designated place in and county seat of Los Alamos County, New Mexico, United States
- Postal codes: 87544 and 87545
Notable Places in the Area
Los Alamos Historical Museum
Photo: Marcin Wichary, CC BY 2.0.
The Los Alamos Historical Museum is housed in the historic Guest House, located next to Fuller Lodge, of Los Alamos Ranch School, which was General Leslie Groves's favorite place to stay during the Manhattan Project.
Mesa Public Library
Photo: AllenS, Public domain.
Mesa Public Library is the Los Alamos branch of the Los Alamos County Library System in New Mexico, United States.
Los Alamos County Airport
Los Alamos Airport, also known as Los Alamos County Airport, is a county-owned, public-use airport in Los Alamos County, New Mexico, United States.Los Alamos
- Categories: census-designated place in the United States, county seat and locality
- Location: Los Alamos, New Mexico, Southwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.8814° or 35° 52' 53" northLongitude
-106.299° or 106° 17' 56" westPopulation
12,000Elevation
7,211 feet (2,198 metres)IATA airport code
LAMUnited Nations Location Code
US LAMOpen Location Code
857MVPJ2+GCOpenStreetMap ID
node 151878215OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
5476825Wikidata ID
Q318637Los Alamos Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: Los Alamos, New Mexico
- Arabic: لوس ألاموس
- Armenian: Լոս Ալամոս
- Bashkir: Лос-Аламос
- Belarusian: Лос-Аламас
- Bengali: লস অ্যালামস
- Breton: Los Alamos
- Bulgarian: Лос Аламос
- Catalan: Los Alamos
- Catalan: Los Álamos
- Cebuano: Los Alamos
- Chechen: Лос-Аламос
- Chinese: Los Alamos
- Chinese: 洛斯阿拉莫斯
- Croatian: Los Alamos, Novi Meksiko
- Croatian: Los Alamos
- Czech: Los Alamos
- Danish: Los Alamos
- Dutch: Los Alamos
- Egyptian Arabic: لوس الاموس, نيومكسيكو
- English: Atomic City
- English: Los Alamos, N.M.
- English: Los Alamos, NM
- English: Los Alamos, New Mexico
- Estonian: Los Alamos
- Finnish: Los Alamos
- French: Los Alamos
- Galician: Los Álamos, Novo México
- Galician: Los Álamos
- Georgian: ლოს-ალამოსი
- German: Los Alamos
- German: Los Alamos, NM
- Greek: Λος Άλαμος
- Gujarati: લોસ એલામોસ
- Hebrew: לוס אלמוס, ניו מקסיקו
- Hindi: लॉस एलामोस
- Hungarian: Los Alamos
- Indonesian: Los Alamos
- Irish: Los Alamos
- Italian: Los Alamos
- Japanese: ロスアラモス
- Japanese: ロス・アラモス
- Kannada: ಲಾಸ್ ಅಲಾಮೊಸ್
- Kazakh: Лос Аламос
- Kirghiz: Лос Аламос
- Korean: 로스알라모스
- Korean: 로스 알라모스
- Korean: 로스앨러모스
- Korean: 로스 앨러모스
- Ladin: Los Alamos
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- Latvian: Losalamosa
- Lithuanian: Los Alamosas
- Malay: Los Alamos
- Malayalam: ലോസ് അലാമോസ്, ന്യൂ മെക്സിക്കോ
- Malayalam: ലോസ് അലാമോസ്
- Marathi: लॉस अलामोस
- Min Nan Chinese: Los Alamos
- Norwegian: Los Alamos
- Norwegian Bokmål: Los Alamos
- Persian: لاسآلموس، نیومکزیکو
- Persian: لس آلاموس، نیومکزیکو
- Polish: Los Alamos
- Portuguese: Los Alamos
- Romanian: Los Alamos, New Mexico
- Romanian: Los Alamos
- Russian: Лос-Аламос
- Russian: Лос Аламос
- Serbian: Los Alamos
- Serbian: Лос Аламос
- Serbo-Croatian: Los Alamos, New Mexico
- Serbo-Croatian: Los Alamos
- Sinhala: ලොස් ඇලමොස්
- Slovak: Los Alamos (Nové Mexiko)
- Slovak: Los Alamos
- Slovenian: Los Alamos, Nova Mehika
- Slovenian: Los Alamos
- South Azerbaijani: لس آلاموس، نیومکزیکو
- Spanish: Los Álamos
- Spanish: Los Álamos (Nuevo México)
- Swedish: Los Alamos, New Mexico
- Swedish: Los Alamos
- Tamil: லாஸ் அலமோஸ்
- Tatar: Лос-Аламос
- Telugu: లాస్ అల్మాస్
- Thai: ลอสอาลามอส
- Turkish: Los Alamos, New Mexico
- Turkish: Los Alamos
- Ukrainian: Лос-Аламос
- Urdu: لاس ایلموس، نیو میکسیکو
- Uzbek: Los-alamos
- Uzbek: Los Alamos
- Vietnamese: Los Alamos, New Mexico
- Vietnamese: Los Alamos
- Volapük: Los Alamos, New Mexico
- Volapük: Los Alamos
- Waray (Philippines): Los Alamos, New Mexico
- Yakut: Лос-Аламос
- Yiddish: לאס אלאמאס
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Los Alamos. Photo: Dschwen, CC BY-SA 3.0.