La Cueva CDP (Santa Fe County), NM

La Cueva is an unincorporated community in Santa Fe County, about 2.2 miles east-northeast of Glorieta at an elevation of roughly 7,769 feet. The settlement sits in the high country east of Santa Fe, with mountain roads and the I-25 corridor organizing its connections to nearby villages. Santa Fe Public Schools assigns La Cueva to El Dorado Community School for kindergarten through eighth grade and Santa Fe High School for later grades. The county label matters here because New Mexico has other communities named La Cueva, including a CDP in Sandoval County.

Santa Fe County service listings group Glorieta, La Cueva, and Canada de los Alamos for a Thursday food and grocery distribution stop at the I-25 Exit 299 area. That detail gives a useful picture of how the place works: daily needs are connected through neighboring settlements and the interstate corridor, with local routines reaching beyond the immediate cluster of homes. High elevation, a school route into the Santa Fe system, and the shared Glorieta-area service point give La Cueva a distinctly regional map.