User:Tillman/Hernandez, New Mexico

Hernandez, New Mexico is an unincorporated community in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, United States. Hernandez is about 5 miles NW of Espanola, NM on US Route 84/285.

Hernandez has the ZIP code 87537. The ZIP Code Tabulation Area 87537 had a population of 2492 in this 55 square mile area, at the 2000 Census

Hernandez is "a populated place located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of any incorporated place or CDP with an authoritative common name recognized by the U.S. Geological Survey." (FIPS code U6)

Hernandez is best known as the subject of a 1941 Ansel Adams photograph, "Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico" (see [1]). A 1948 print of this photograph realized $609,600 at a Sotheby's New York auction in 2006. The previous record for a "Moonrise" print, set in 2002, was $136,000.

Georgia O'Keeffe painted another church in Hernandez in 1931: "Another Church, Hernandez, New Mexico"

See also

• List of most expensive photographs

External links

• Image of "Moonrise"
• Image of ""Another Church, Hernandez, New Mexico"
• Hernandez, NM at Google Maps

[[Category:Rio Arriba County, New Mexico] [[Category:Unincorporated communities in New Mexico] [[Category:New Mexico communities with Hispanic majority populations]
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