The Dulce Independent School district is located on the Jicarilla Apache reservation. Dulce is located in Northern New Mexico, near the Colorado border. Headquartered in Dulce, on U.S. Highway 64, it is just 26 miles west of Chama and 78 miles east of Farmington. The elevation on the Jicarilla Apache reservation ranges from 6,000 to 9,000 feet with the landscape varying from rugged pine covered mesas and pinion juniper woodlands to low age-brush flats, several lakes and the Navajo River.