The La Plata Mountains, seen from San Juan County, are a small subrange of the San Juan Mountains in sw Colorado, and includes Hesperus Mountain at 13,332 feet.
The San Juan River is a 383 mile long major tributary of the Colorado River and a primary drainage for the Four Corners.
The eggs and hoodoos in the Bisti Wilderness were formed in sand and silt revealed 73 million years ago when the Western Interior Seaway receded.
Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness (Bisti Badlands) is a 45,000-acre wilderness area full of rock formations made of sandstone, shale, mudstone, and silt.
Navajo Lake is a 3800 feet long and 400 feet deep reservoir located in northeastern San Juan County, created from a dam completed in 1962.
The Aztec Ruins National Monument, on 318 acres, consists of dwellings and sacred structures built by Ancient Pueblo Indians in the 12th and 13th Centuries.
Shiprock (Tsé Bitʼaʼí, "rock with wings") is a 27 million year old volcanic rock formation, designated as a National Natural Landmark, rising 1,583 feet above the desert.
Angel Peak Scenic Area is located 15 miles south of Bloomfield in San Juan County, with over 10,000 acres of rugged terrain, badlands and deep canyons.

Alcohol-related Death

Category: Substance Use

Alcohol-related Deaths, Rates

In 2024, San Juan County was ranked 4th among the New Mexico's 33 counties for alcohol-related deaths, with 145 deaths related to excessive or heavy, chronic drinking, giving a rate of 141.0 deaths per 100,000 population. Of 1,291 deaths in San Juan County in 2024, 13% were related to heavy or high-risk alcohol use. (See notes.)

San Juan County's rate is significantly above New Mexico's rate of 79.9, and nearly three times the U.S. rate of 47.6 (in 2020/21).

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Alcohol-Related Deaths in 2024

% Alcohol-related of All Deaths

Trends, Alcohol-related Death

The graph below shows trends for overall alcohol-involved deaths, and for the two types: chronic alcohol-related death which is closely tied to heavy, chronic drinking; and injury-related death, which is more closely linked to excessive, episodic or binge drinking.

After several years of increasing rates of alcohol-related death, there has been a decrease in alcohol-related chronic disease deaths, from a rate of 113.8 in 2022 to 87.5 (106 deaths) in 2024. Alcohol-related injury deaths reached a plateau over the past five to six years, with a most recent available rate of 53.5 (62 deaths).

New Mexico Department of Health, Indicator-based Information System (NM-IBIS). 
https://ibis.health.state.nm.us/

Note that the approach to alcohol-related deaths, referred to as ARDI or Alcohol-Related Disease Impact, draws on research of 58 different direct and indirect causes.

There are 13 causes of death which are 100% directly attirbutable to alcohol (such as alcoholic liver disease and alcohol toxicity/overdose), and an additional 45 causes that are based on "alcohol-attributable fractions" or which are partially influenced by excessive / chronic use of alcohol, including certain types of cancer, heart disease and cardiovascular, and other chronic health conditions, as well as injury deaths such as traffic fatalities and falls. The key point is the "fractions" are derived from research, not on whether a death certifcate refers to alcohol involvement.

For more information, see CDC's Alcohol-Related Disease Impact (ARDI)
https://nccd.cdc.gov/DPH_ARDI/Default/Default.aspx