Springs (Las Cienegas)
Las Cienegas is a cluster of springs logged by USGS survey crews, with Manuel Ojinaga given as the nearest town and the distance to it recorded as zero, meaning it sits right at the edge of that border city. The record files it under Texas in Ojinaga county. The water is warm, pleasant to wade in on a cool day. Nobody has recorded an owner or a fee, and the question of public entry stays open.
Reaching the water means a short walk, around a third of a mile, and the road you start from has no name on file. Elevation was never recorded. The climate is border desert, a dry seven inches of rain most years with a trace of snow, and the town is close enough that you could be walking out from it.
Winter months suit this one. There is no temperature beyond a survey figure and no access status, so expect some uncertainty about what is on the ground. Ask locally about ownership before heading out. No campground is listed nearby and no water analysis was done here, so the record is thin beyond location and warmth.
Aircraft with laser scanners measured this ground to within inches. The scan strips out trees and buildings, leaving the bare shape of the land around Springs (Las Cienegas).
Drag the handle to compare the two views. The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
- Setting
- Hillside
- The spring sits on a steep slope that climbs to the southeast.
- Highest ground nearby
- 238 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the southeast
A slice through the ground from northwest to southeast, about 0.6 miles end to end.
Elevation data: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Aerial imagery: USGS The National Map. Public domain.
That's close to the US average of 65. It's higher than at 2% of the springs on this site.
Heat flow measures the warmth working its way up through the ground from deep inside the earth. Where it runs high, rain and snowmelt that seep down through cracks in the rock come back up hot.
See every spring on the geothermal heat map →
Heat flow estimate: Stanford Thermal Earth Model (Aljubran & Horne, 2024), CC BY 4.0.
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