Horseback Riding Properties for Sale in Chaves County, New Mexico

Chaves County is set in a largely underpopulated, agricultural area of New Mexico. At 6,076 square miles, the county is the state's ninth-largest county and comprises some 5 percent of the Enchantment State's total land area. Chaves is centered around the county seat of Roswell, famously known for a 1947 UFO sighting and the reported military cover-up of the alien flying-saucer's crash landing during a storm. A total of approximately 2,000 acres were listed for sale in Chaves County recently; the value of all Chaves County ranches, farms, hunting land and other rural land and acreage for sale was $36 million. Chaves County ranks 21st in the Land of Enchantment for the combined amount of land currently advertised for sale. Of all land and rural real estate for sale in Chaves County, Roswell featured the most land for sale. Chaves County is one of the ten largest counties in New Mexico (6,075 square miles). It's located in the Southeast New Mexico region of New Mexico.