Sierra Cuchillo (knife mountains) or Cuchillo Negro Mountains is a range of mountains, primarily in Sierra County and some in southern Socorro County,

New Mexico New Mexico is a state in the Southwestern United States, Southwestern region of the United States. It is one of the Mountain States of the southern Rocky Mountains, sharing the Four Corners region with Utah, Colorado, and Arizona. It also ...

. They were named for the knife-like shape of some of the peaks in the range, or for

Cuchillo Negro Baishan, Spanish name Cuchillo Negro (Black Knife) (c. 1796 – May 24, 1857), was a Tchihende ( Mimbres) Apache chieftain, of the Warm Springs Apache Band during the 1830s to 1850s. Apache war-leader and chief Baishan ("Knife"), son of the ...

Apache The Apache ( ) are several Southern Athabaskan language-speaking peoples of the Southwestern United States, Southwest, the Southern Plains and Northern Mexico. They are linguistically related to the Navajo. They migrated from the Athabascan ho ...

leader in the region in the mid 19th century.

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Mountain ranges of New Mexico Mountain ranges of Sierra County, New Mexico Mountain ranges of Socorro County, New Mexico {{NewMexico-geo-stub