{{Short description|Mountain in New Mexico, United States}} {{About|the mountain in New Mexico, USA|the mountain in Nova Scotia|Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox mountain | name = Beautiful Mountain | image = | image_caption = | elevation_ft = 9392 | elevation_ref = <ref name="pb">{{cite peakbagger |pid=3929 |name=Beautiful Mountain, New Mexico |accessdate=2008-08-07}}</ref> | prominence_ft = 1508 | prominence_ref = <ref name="pb"/> | listing = San Juan County high point | location = San Juan County, New Mexico, U.S. | map = New Mexico | map_caption = none | map_size = 200 | label = | label_position = | coordinates = {{coord|36.4888906|N|108.9892618|W|type:mountain_region:US-NM_scale:100000_source:GNIS|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | range_coordinates = | coordinates_ref = <ref name="gnis">{{cite gnis |id=902172 |name=Beautiful Mountain |accessdate=2014-02-10}}</ref> | topo_map = USGS Sanostee West | type = | age = | first_ascent = | easiest_route = }}
'''Beautiful Mountain''' ({{langx|nv|Dziłkʼi Hózhóonii}}) is part of the Chuska Mountains and its summit is the highest point in San Juan County, New Mexico. The mountain is about {{convert|26|mi}} southwest of the community of Shiprock in the Four Corners region. It is on the Navajo Nation and plays a significant role in Navajo mythology.
==History== Navajo legend includes "Beautiful Mountain" as the feet of a large mythic male figure, with the Chuska Mountains comprising the body, Chuska Peak as the head and the Carrizo Mountains as the legs. Shiprock is said to be either a medicine pouch or a bow carried by the figure.<ref name="linford">{{cite book |first=Laurance D. |last=Linford |title=Navajo Places: History, Legend, Landscape |publisher=University of Utah Press |location=Salt Lake City |year=2000 |isbn=0-87480-623-2 |pages=264–265}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Wyman |first=Leland C. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C5MlEAAAQBAJ&dq=Beautiful+Mountain+mythic+New+Mexico&pg=PA137 |title=The Mountainway of the Navajo |date=2019-05-28 |publisher=University of Arizona Press |isbn=978-0-8165-4022-8 |language=en}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{cite summitpost |id=583708 |name=Beautiful Mountain}}
{{Mountains of New Mexico}}
Category:Landforms of San Juan County, New Mexico Category:Landmarks in New Mexico Category:Mountains of New Mexico Category:Religious places of the Indigenous peoples of North America Category:Sacred mountains of the United States Category:Mountains of San Juan County, New Mexico Category:Navajo Nation
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