Elephant Butte Dam - Displaced People
The US Bureau of Reclamation's Elephant Butte Dam displaced multiple small communities, including Canta Recio, Paraje, Contadero, and San Jose.
About this community
- River
- Rio Grande
- Established
- 1875
- Inundated
- 1915
Sources
- Robert Julyan, The Place Names of New Mexico (1996).
- "Elephant Butte Appraisements Filed in Court," Albuquerque Journal, September 11, 1914.