Golf in Belen

Belen is the Valencia County seat along the Rio Grande roughly 35 miles south of Albuquerque at around 4,800 feet, a colonial settlement whose name is the Spanish form of "Bethlehem." The Harvey House Museum commemorates the Fred Harvey Company's contribution to Western travel culture, and the city's railroad heritage shapes its downtown character. Agriculture remains significant along this stretch of the Rio Grande, where the bosque corridor and irrigation infrastructure sustain farming in the central New Mexico lowlands. Tierra Del Sol Golf Club serves Belen's recreational golf community in a setting where the Manzano Mountains define the eastern horizon and the Rio Grande valley provides the geographic foundation for life between Albuquerque and Socorro.