Punta de Agua, NM

Punta de Agua is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Torrance County, New Mexico, United States. The 2020 census counted 68 residents. Punta de Agua was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. The CDP is in the western part of the county, 7 miles northwest of Mountainair along New Mexico State Road 55, which continues northwest 5 miles to Manzano. A newcomer can read Punta de Agua through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Punta de Agua comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. The Quarai unit of Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument is in the southwest part of the CDP.