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Housing Units (2000): 25647
Land area (2000): 6070.861670 sq. miles (15723.458875 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 4.208208 sq. miles (10.899208 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 6075.069878 sq. miles (15734.358083 sq. km)
Located within: New Mexico (NM), FIPS 35
Location: 33.355893 N, 104.444987 W
Headwords:
Chaves, NM
Chaves County
Chaves County, NM
Wikipedia
Chaves is a modern Portuguese and old Spanish word derived from Latin Flaviae, and may refer to:
Usage examples of "chaves".
He flew the lights to Ca colo, then to Nova Chaves, again far enough to one side so that no one could hear the engines.
Ten minutes after passing Nova Chaves, they spotted a yellow glow that had to be Kasaji, in the Belgian Congo, for there was nothing else resembling civilization for three hundred miles.
Then there was the question of pratique: after the fifteen covenanted guns had boomed to and fro across Chaves Bay, a man from the captain of the port came out in a handsome galley, and on hearing that the squadron was last from the Slave Coast he looked grave and said that since there had been an outbreak of the plague in Whydah three years ago they would have to perform quarantine before anyone could be allowed on shore.