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Location

Plains of San Agustin

US-60, Catron County, NM 87821

1 production

Access notes

A high desert basin west of Magdalena, crossed by US-60. Open rangeland with wide pull-offs; the Very Large Array sits at its eastern end.

Parking

Highway pull-offs only; no formal parking.

Filmed Here

What Was Filmed Here

Independence Day· 1996

The desert basin

No approved image yetThen
Very Large Array radio telescope on the Plains of San AgustinNow
Hajor · CC BY-SA 2.0

What happened here

The wide basin west of Magdalena supplied the empty country around the film's radio observatory sequences, with US-60 running straight across it.