San Juan Basin

The San Juan Basin is a geologic structural basin in the Four Corners region of the Southwestern United States; its main portion covers around 4,600 square miles (12,000 km²), encompassing much of northwestern New Mexico, southwest Colorado, and parts of Arizona and Utah.

The region is arid with rugged topography of plains and valleys interspersed by buttes, canyons and mesas. Its most striking features include Chaco Canyon (northwestern New Mexico, between Farmington and Santa Fe) and Chacra Mesa. The San Juan Basin also has uplands that exceed elevations of 9,800 feet (3,000 m). Drainage in the structural basin is general westward from the Continental Divide of the Americas to the Mancos River's confluence with the San Juan River. The San Juan River then continues to the Colorado River.

Geology

The San Juan structural basin is a large downwarp of sedimentary rocks of mostly Mesozoic age. As a geologic region, the San Juan Basin is noted for its large deposits of coal, uranium, and natural gas. Since the 1980s, the Fruitland Formation in the basin has been one of the major US sources of coalbed methane. In 2007, the San Juan Basin produced 1.32 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, making it the largest source of natural gas in the United States.Uranium mining in New Mexico is also performed from the San Juan Basin.

San Juan

San Juan [saŋ ˈxwan] is Spanish for Saint John. It can also be the short version of San Juan Bautista (John the Baptist). In English, the name most commonly refers to the Puerto Rico's capital city of San Juan, Puerto Rico, or to the various professional sports teams that represent the city. Other topics that share the name include:

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Cuba

Dominican Republic

San Juan, Puerto Rico

San Juan (/ˌsæn ˈhwɑːn/; Spanish pronunciation: [saŋ ˈxwan], Saint John) is the capital and most populous municipality in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 395,326 making it the 46th-largest city under the jurisdiction of the United States. San Juan was founded by Spanish colonists in 1521, who called it Ciudad de Puerto Rico ("Rich Port City"). Puerto Rico's capital is the second oldest European-established capital city in the Americas, after Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic. Several historical buildings are located in San Juan; among the most notable are the city's former defensive forts, Fort San Felipe del Morro and Fort San Cristóbal, and La Fortaleza, the oldest executive mansion in continuous use in the Americas.

Today, San Juan is Puerto Rico's most important seaport, and is the island's manufacturing, financial, cultural, and tourism center. The population of the Metropolitan Statistical Area, including San Juan and the municipalities of Bayamón, Guaynabo, Cataño, Canóvanas, Caguas, Toa Alta, Toa Baja, Carolina and Trujillo Alto, is about 2 million inhabitants; thus, about half the population of Puerto Rico now lives and works in this area. San Juan is also a principal city of the San Juan-Caguas-Fajardo Combined Statistical Area. The city has been the host of events within the sports community, including the 1979 Pan American Games, 1966 Central American and Caribbean Games, events of the 2006, 2009 and 2013 World Baseball Classics, the Caribbean Series and the Special Olympics and MLB San Juan Series in 2010.

San Juan (Iruya)

Coordinates: 22°43′32.38″S 65°13′52.61″W / 22.7256611°S 65.2312806°W / -22.7256611; -65.2312806

San Juan is a small village in northwestern Argentina. It is part of the Iruya Department in the Salta Province, located 7 km north of the Iruya village, 4 km northeast of the village of San Isidro and 4 km west of the village of Chiyayoc.

San Juan is part of Finca El Potrero. The village lives from tourism and agriculture. In San Juan potatoes and corn are grown and geese, goats and sheep are raised. San Juan is accessible from Iruya by walking in about 5 hours, in parts via a steep footpath.

Events

The festival of the local saint takes place on 2 February.

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