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The Sombrillo Area of Critical Environmental Concern is an area of well-exposed sedimentary beds of the Santa Fe Group in the western foothills of Sangre de Cristo Mountains, located approximately 40 km (25 mi) north of Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) manages the Sombrillo Area of Critical Environmental Concern and surrounding Nambé Badlands.

The area is rich in mammalian fossils from the Miocene Epoch. In 1988, the BLM designated 8,865 acres of the Nambé Badlands as the Sombrillo Area of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC) to protect paleontological and archeological resources. The Sombrillo ACEC was expanded to 18,080 acres in 2012 to protect additional paleontological resources.

Geography
The Sombrillo ACEC consists of three separate areas 25 miles north of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Two areas are south of NM 76, west of NM 503, east of US 84/285, and north of the Pueblo of Pojoaque and Nambé Pueblo northern boundaries; the third area, added in 2012 to protect additional paleontological resources, is north of NM 76.

The badlands of the Sombrillo ACEC are best observed to the west of the High Road to Taos (NM 503), south of El Santuario de Chimayo.