Sandia
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Places

  • Sandia, California
    Sandia, California
    Sandia is an unincorporated community in Imperial County, California. It is located on the Southern Pacific Railroad north-northwest of Holtville, at an elevation of 82 feet below sea level....

    , community in Imperial County
  • Sandia, Texas
    Sandia, Texas
    Sandia is a census-designated place in Jim Wells County, Texas, United States. The population was 431 at the 2000 census.-History:Sandia was in the Casa Blanca land grant, issued to Juan José de la Garza Montemayor by Spain on April 2, 1807. The Montemayor family occupied the land until 1852. In...

    , town in the USA
  • Sandia, Peru
    Sandia, Peru
    Sandia is a town in Southern Peru, capital of the province Sandia in the region Puno.-References:...

    , town in the Puno region of Peru
  • Sandia Province
    Sandia Province
    Sandia Province is a province of the Puno Region in Peru. The capital of the province is the city of Sandia.- Political division :The province measures and is divided into ten districts:...

    , province in the Puno region
  • Sandia Base
    Sandia Base
    Sandia Base was, from 1946 to 1971, the principal nuclear weapons installation of the United States Department of Defense. It was located on the southeastern edge of Albuquerque, New Mexico...

    , nuclear weapons base
  • Pueblo of Sandia Village, New Mexico
    Pueblo of Sandia Village, New Mexico
    Pueblo of Sandia Village is a census-designated place in Sandoval County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 344 at the 2000 census...

    , U.S. census-designated location
  • Sandia High School
    Sandia High School
    Sandia High School is a Public High School located in the northeast heights of Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is a member of the Albuquerque Public Schools district. The current enrollment is 2,071.-History:...

    , high school in Albuquerque, New Mexico
  • Sandia Motorsport Park
    Sandia Motorsport Park
    Sandia Speedway is a multiple use racing facility located near Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. The complex provides two short ovals, a multiple configuration road course, karting ovals, and a motocross area...

    , racing venue in Albuquerque, New Mexico
  • Sandia Mountains
    Sandia Mountains
    The Sandia Mountains name posu gai hoo-oo, "where water slides down arroyo") are a mountain range located in Bernalillo and Sandoval counties, immediately to the east of the city of Albuquerque in New Mexico in the southwestern United States. The range is largely within the Cibola National...

    , in New Mexico, USA
  • Sandia Mountain Wilderness
    Sandia Mountain Wilderness
    Sandia Mountain Wilderness, part of Cibola National Forest, is located east of Albuquerque, New Mexico. It became part of the National Wilderness Preservation System in 1978 by an act of the United States Congress and has a total of ....

    , in New Mexico, USA
  • Sandia Preparatory School
    Sandia Preparatory School
    Sandia Preparatory School is a private, secular college preparatory school located in Albuquerque, New Mexico.In 1958, Barbara Young Simms began to investigate the possibility of starting a girls day school in Albuquerque. In 1965, she secured land, established a board of trustees and formed the...

    , in Albuquerque, New Mexico
  • Sandia View Academy
    Sandia View Academy
    Sandia View Academy is a private high school in Corrales, New Mexico. It is located in view of the Sandia Mountains. It is currently run by the Texico Conference of the Southwestern Union Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The school was founded in 1942 and currently has students from...

    , in Corrales, New Mexico

Other

  • Sandia (butterfly) Ehrlich & Clench 1960, a genus of butterflies
  • Invalid genus names preoccupied by the butterflies:
    • Sandia Sutherland & Harlow 1973, brachiopod
      Brachiopod
      Brachiopods are a phylum of marine animals that have hard "valves" on the upper and lower surfaces, unlike the left and right arrangement in bivalve molluscs. Brachiopod valves are hinged at the rear end, while the front can be opened for feeding or closed for protection...

      s
    • Sandia Theron 1982, Hemiptera
      Hemiptera
      Hemiptera is an order of insects most often known as the true bugs , comprising around 50,000–80,000 species of cicadas, aphids, planthoppers, leafhoppers, shield bugs, and others...

       (true bugs)
  • Sandia Furtado
    Sandia Furtado
    Sandia Furtado is an Indian actress who has risen to fame with her portrayal of the character Nethra Reddy, a member of the Indian women's national hockey team, in the Hindi "Bollywood" film "Chak De India". She was also recently featured in the CNN IBN Citizens Journalist commercial.- Personal...

    , Indian actress
  • Sandia Hairstreak
    Sandia Hairstreak
    The Sandia Hairstreak, scientific name Callophrys mcfarlandi is a species of butterfly native to North America. A relatively rare butterfly with a limited range, it was discovered in La Cueva Canyon, Albuquerque in 1959 by "a 4-H kid" and described the following year...

    , species of butterfly
  • Sandia National Laboratories
    Sandia National Laboratories
    The Sandia National Laboratories, managed and operated by the Sandia Corporation , are two major United States Department of Energy research and development national laboratories....

    , a major United States Department of Energy research and development national laboratory
  • Sandia Peak Tramway
    Sandia Peak Tramway
    The Sandia Peak Tramway is located adjacent to Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. It stretches from the northeast edge of the city to the crestline of the Sandia Mountains and has the world's third longest single span.-History:...

    , tram way in New Mexico
  • Sandia Pueblo
    Sandia Pueblo
    Sandia Pueblo is a tribe of Native American Pueblo people inhabiting a 101.114 km² reservation of the same name in the eastern Rio Grande Valley of central New Mexico, located three miles south of Bernalillo off Highway 85 in southern Sandoval County and northern Bernalillo County, at...

    , a Native American tribe
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