Manuelito is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) on the Navajo Nation in McKinley County, New Mexico, United States.

[3] The community is in the western part of McKinley County in the valley of the Puerco River, 16 miles (26 km) southwest of Gallup, the county seat, and 3 miles (5 km) east of the Arizona border.

New Mexico State Road 118 (Historic Route 66) and Interstate 40 pass through the community.

The closest I-40 access is from Exit 8 (NM 118), 3 miles (5 km) to the northeast.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Manuelito CDP has an area of 8.17 square miles (21.16 km2), all of it recorded as land.