El Malpais National Conservation Area
United States of America
The El Malpais National Conservation Area is a federally protected conservation area in the U.S. state of New Mexico. The El Malpais National Conservation area was established in 1987 and is managed by the Bureau of Land Management as part of the National Landscape Conservation System. The adjoining
El Malpais National Monument was established at the same time and is managed by the National Park Service. The 263,000-acre (1,060 km2) El Malpais NCA includes two wilderness areas — the West Malpais Wilderness and Cebolla Wilderness Area — covering almost 100,000 acres (400 km2).
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- El Malpais National Monument monumenti · 2 km away
- Cebolla Wilderness monumenti · 16 km away
- Bandera Volcano Ice Cave cave · 17 km away