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Mora Land Grant

Description
The Mora Land Grant was a 827,621 acre (1,293 square miles) Mexican land grant mostly in Mora County, New Mexico. The grant extends from the Great Plains west of the town of Wagon Mound for about 40 mile west to the crest of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains with elevations ranging from about 6500 ft on the eastern border to 12835 ft at Jicarita Peak on the western border. The grant includes the upper drainage basin of the Mora River, a tributary of the Canadian River. Most of the agricultural settlements on the grant were along the Mora River and its tributaries in valleys at elevations of 7100 ft to 7600 ft and ringed by mountains.

The climate around the town of Mora is classified as Dfb (humid continental with warm summers and cold winters). Mora receives an average of 22 inch of precipitation annually which is higher than the New Mexican average. The rainiest months are July and August.

History
a vara in New Mexico is 33 inches.

History
In 1835 the governor of New Mexico (then part of Mexico) awarded the grant to a group of Hispanic settlers