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New Mexico (Spanish: Nuevo México [ˈnweβo ˈmexiko] ^ⓘ; Navajo: Yootó Hahoodzo Navajo pronunciation: [jòːtʰó hɑ̀hòːtsò]) is a state in the Southwestern region of the United States. It is one of the Mountain States of the southern Rocky Mountains, sharing the Four Corners region with Utah, Colorado, and Arizona. It also borders Texas to the east and southeast, Oklahoma to the northeast, and the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Sonora to the south. New Mexico's largest city is Albuquerque, and its state capital is Santa Fe, the oldest state capital in the U.S., founded in 1610 as the government seat of Nuevo México in New Spain.

New Mexico is the fifth largest of the fifty states by area, but with just over 2.1 million residents, ranks 36th in population and 46th in population density. Its climate and geography are highly varied, ranging from forested mountains to sparse deserts; the northern and eastern regions exhibit a colder alpine climate, while the west and south are warmer and more arid. The Rio Grande and its fertile valley runs from north-to-south, creating a riparian climate through the center of the state that supports a bosque habitat and distinct Albuquerque Basin climate. One–third of New Mexico's land is federally owned, and the state hosts many protected wilderness areas and national monuments, including three UNESCO World Heritage Sites, the most of any U.S. state.

New Mexico's economy is highly diversified, including cattle ranching, agriculture, lumber, scientific and technological research, tourism, and the arts, especially textiles and visual arts. Major sectors include mining, oil and gas, aerospace, media, and film. Its total gross domestic product (GDP) in 2020 was $95.73 billion, with a GDP per capita of roughly $46,300. State tax policy is characterized by low to moderate taxation of resident personal income by national standards, with tax credits, exemptions, and special considerations for military personnel and favorable industries. Due to its large area and economic climate, New Mexico has a significant U.S. military presence, including White Sands Missile Range, and strategically valuable federal research centers, such as the Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratories. The state hosted several key facilities of the Manhattan Project, which developed the world's first atomic bomb, and was the site of the first nuclear test, Trinity. (Full article...)

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Chaco Culture National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park in the American Southwest hosting a concentration of pueblos. The park is located in northwestern New Mexico, between Albuquerque and Farmington, in a remote canyon cut by the Chaco Wash. Containing the most sweeping collection of ancient ruins north of Mexico, the park preserves one of the most important pre-Columbian cultural and historical areas in the United States.

Between AD 900 and 1150, Chaco Canyon was a major center of culture for the Ancestral Puebloans. Chacoans quarried sandstone blocks and hauled timber from great distances, assembling fifteen major complexes that remained the largest buildings ever built in North America until the 19th century. Evidence of archaeoastronomy at Chaco has been proposed, with the "Sun Dagger" petroglyph at Fajada Butte a popular example. Many Chacoan buildings may have been aligned to capture the solar and lunar cycles, requiring generations of astronomical observations and centuries of skillfully coordinated construction. Climate change is thought to have led to the emigration of Chacoans and the eventual abandonment of the canyon, beginning with a fifty-year drought commencing in 1130. (Full article...)

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Jeffrey Preston Bezos (/ˈbeɪzoʊs/ BAY-zohss; né Jorgensen; born January 12, 1964) is an American businessman, media proprietor and investor. He is the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and cloud computing company. He is the third-wealthiest person in the world, with a net worth of about US$180 billion as of January 2024. He was the wealthiest from 2017 to 2021, according to both the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and Forbes.

Bezos was born in Albuquerque and raised in Houston and Miami. He graduated from Princeton University in 1986 with degrees in electrical engineering and computer science. He worked on Wall Street in a variety of related fields from 1986 to early 1994. Bezos founded Amazon in mid 1994 on a road trip from New York City to Seattle. The company began as an online bookstore and has since expanded to a variety of other e-commerce products and services, including video and audio streaming, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. It is the world's largest online sales company, the largest Internet company by revenue, and the largest provider of virtual assistants and cloud infrastructure services through its Amazon Web Services branch. (Full article...)

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Image 1The New Mexico Public Education Department is in Santa Fe. (from New Mexico)
Image 2Greater roadrunner (the state bird of New Mexico) (from New Mexico)
Image 3A homesteader and his children at the New Mexico Fair in Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940 (from New Mexico)

Counties in New Mexico by racial plurality, per the 2020 U.S. census

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Image 5Tierra O Muerte – Land or Death. Some New Mexicans express dissatisfaction over land grant issues which date back to the Mexican War. (from History of New Mexico)
Image 6Public New Mexico colleges and universities. New Mexico Higher Education Department. (from New Mexico)
Image 7A Hispano boy in Chamisal, 1940 (from New Mexico)
Image 8Territory of Santa Fe de Nuevo México when it belonged to Mexico in 1824 (from New Mexico)
Image 9Rio Grande Gorge and Bridge (from New Mexico)
Image 10Ancestral Pueblo territory shown in pink over New Mexico (from New Mexico)
Image 11José Rafael Aragón, Crucifix, ca. 1795–1862, Brooklyn Museum, From about 1750, Catholic churches in Spanish New Mexico were increasingly decorated with the work of native craftspeople rather than with paintings, sculpture, and furniture imported from Europe. This small santo (religious image) is typical of the locally produced objects. It is made of indigenous pine and painted with water-based pigments used by native artisans. (from History of New Mexico)
Image 12Statue of Popé, leader of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. The statue, entitled Po'pay, is among two statues depicting New Mexicans at the United States Capitol National Statuary Hall Collection, the other being Dennis Chávez. (from New Mexico)
Image 13Luminarias in the old mission church, Jemez State Monument (from New Mexico)
Image 14Ethnic origins in New Mexico (from New Mexico)
Image 15Wheeler Peak in the Sangre de Cristo Range (from New Mexico)
Image 16Bronze statue of Archbishop Lamy in front of St. Francis Cathedral (from History of New Mexico)
Image 17White Sands National Park (from New Mexico)
Image 18An F-22 Raptor flown by the 49th Fighter Wing at Holloman AFB (from New Mexico)
Image 19Santa Fe trail sign (from New Mexico)
Image 20Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) (from New Mexico)
Image 21President William Howard Taft at his desk in the Oval Office, signing the statehood bill for New Mexico on January 6, 1912. (from History of New Mexico)
Image 22Proposals for Texas northwestern boundary (from History of New Mexico)
Image 23Interior of the Crosby Theater at the Santa Fe Opera, viewed from the mezzanine (from New Mexico)
Image 24Shiprock (from New Mexico)
Image 25The New Mexico Rail Runner Express is a commuter operation that runs along the Central Rio Grande Valley. (from New Mexico)
Image 26Province of New Mexico when it belonged to Mexico in 1824 (from History of New Mexico)
Image 27New Mexico state quarter, circulated in April 2008 (from New Mexico)
Image 28Downtown Santa Fe train station (from New Mexico)
Image 29In this photo, the Mexico–United States border divides Sunland Park and the Mexican state of Chihuahua. (from New Mexico)
Image 30San Miguel Chapel, built in 1610 in Santa Fe, is the oldest church structure in the continental U.S. (from New Mexico)
Image 31Party registration by New Mexico county (February 2023):
  Democratic >= 30%
  Democratic >= 40%
  Democratic >= 50%
  Democratic >= 60%
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  Republican >= 40%
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Image 32New Mexico proposed boundary before Compromise of 1850 (from History of New Mexico)
Image 331867 map (from History of New Mexico)
Image 34Spaceport America terminal, The Gateway (from New Mexico)
Image 35"The indigenous people of northern New Mexico" by Balduin Möllhausen, 1861 (from New Mexico)
Image 36The Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad (from New Mexico)
Image 37Serving food in Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940 (from History of New Mexico)
Image 38Carlsbad Caverns National Park (from New Mexico)
Image 39Albuquerque Studios, built in 2007 for the rising demand of film production in the state (from New Mexico)
Image 40Jean Nicolas Du Tralage and Vincenzo Coronelli's 1687 map of New Mexico (from History of New Mexico)
Image 41The Santa Ana Star Center (from New Mexico)
Image 42Symbols of the Southwest: a string of dried chile pepper pods (a ristra) and a bleached white cow's skull hang in a market near Santa Fe. (from New Mexico)
Image 43New Mexico population density map (from New Mexico)
Image 44Gen. Kearny's annexation of New Mexico, August 15, 1846 (from History of New Mexico)
Image 45Köppen climate types of New Mexico, using 1991–2020 climate normals (from New Mexico)
Image 46The railway station in Tucumcari (from New Mexico)
Image 47Comancheria and the New Mexico settlements prior to 1850. (from History of New Mexico)

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... that when the founder of New Mexico television station KBIM-TV was told on the morning of April Fools' Day that his station's tower had collapsed, he initially wrote it off as a joke?
... that in an 1854 war with the Jicarilla, William S. Messervy, the acting governor of the New Mexico Territory, desired either "their extinction or their settlement in pueblos"?
... that Roswell, New Mexico, radio station KBIM was so successful that its owner was able to start two other stations with its profits?
... that a boy's voice over CB radio claiming to be within an overturned truck in New Mexico sparked a search-and-rescue mission 49 years ago today?
... that a New Mexico TV station went on the air "a day late but ... not a single program short"?
... that Sunday-school classes were once held in the transmitter building of New Mexico radio station KCLV?

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v t e State of New Mexico
Santa Fe (capital)
Topics	Index Census-designated places Cuisine Bizcochito Chile Culture Delegations Geography Government History Nuevo México Territory Landmarks Military National Guard Civil War World War II Music New Mexico music New Mexicans Hispanos Pueblos and Tribes Paleontology Symbols Tourist attractions Transportation	Seal of New Mexico
Society	Crime Demographics Economy Education Elections Politics
Regions	Apachian zone Central New Mexico Chicoma Mountain Chihuahuan Desert Colorado Plateau Eastern New Mexico Llano Estacado Manzano Mountains Mogollon Plateau Northern New Mexico Permian Basin Rio Grande Rocky Mountains San Juan Basin San Luis Valley Sandia Mountains Shortgrass prairie Sangre de Cristo Mountains Wheeler Peak (highest point) Southwestern New Mexico
Cities	Alamogordo Albuquerque (Metropolitan Area) Artesia Carlsbad Clovis Corrales Deming Española Farmington Gallup Grants Hobbs Las Cruces Las Vegas Los Alamos Los Lunas Lovington Portales Raton Rio Rancho Roswell Ruidoso Santa Fe Silver City Socorro Sunland Park Taos Tucumcari
Counties	See: List of counties in New Mexico Bernalillo Catron Chaves Cibola Colfax Curry De Baca Doña Ana Eddy Grant Guadalupe Harding Hidalgo Lea Lincoln Los Alamos Luna McKinley Mora Otero Quay Rio Arriba Roosevelt San Juan San Miguel Sandoval Santa Fe Sierra Socorro Taos Torrance Union Valencia

v t e Protected areas of New Mexico
National Parks	Carlsbad Caverns White Sands
National Historical Parks	Chaco Culture Manhattan Project Pecos
National monuments	Aztec Ruins Bandelier Capulin Volcano El Malpais El Morro Fort Union Gila Cliff Dwellings Petroglyph Salinas Pueblo Missions
National Recreation Areas	Jemez (USFS)
National Trails	Camino Real de Tierra Adentro Old Spanish Trail Santa Fe Trail
National Forests	Apache–Sitgreaves Carson Cibola Coronado Gila Lincoln Santa Fe
National Grasslands	Kiowa
National Wildlife Refuges	Bitter Lake Bosque del Apache Grulla Las Vegas Maxwell San Andres Sevilleta Valle de Oro
National Conservation Areas	El Malpais Fort Stanton–Snowy River Cave
BLM National Monuments	Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks Organ Mountains–Desert Peaks Prehistoric Trackways Rio Grande del Norte
National Natural Landmarks	List of National Natural Landmarks in New Mexico
National Preserves	Valles Caldera
Wilderness	Aldo Leopold Apache Kid Bandelier Bisti/De-Na-Zin Blue Range Bosque del Apache Capitan Mountains Carlsbad Caverns Cebolla Chama River Canyon Columbine–Hondo Cruces Basin Dome Gila Latir Peak Manzano Mountain Ojito Pecos Sabinoso Salt Creek San Pedro Parks Sandia Mountain West Malpais Wheeler Peak White Mountain Withington
Wild and Scenic Rivers	East Fork Jemez River Pecos River Red River Rio Chama Rio Grande
State Parks	Bluewater Lake Bottomless Lakes Brantley Lake Caballo Lake Cerrillos Hills Cimarron Canyon City of Rocks Clayton Lake Conchas Lake Coyote Creek Eagle Nest Lake El Vado Lake Elephant Butte Lake Fenton Lake Heron Lake Hyde Memorial Leasburg Dam Living Desert Zoo and Gardens Manzano Mountains Mesilla Valley Bosque Morphy Lake Navajo Lake Oasis Oliver Lee Memorial Pancho Villa Percha Dam Rio Grande Nature Center Rockhound Santa Rosa Lake Storrie Lake Sugarite Canyon Sumner Lake Ute Lake Villanueva
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Largest cities

Largest cities or towns in New Mexico

Source:2017 U.S. Census Bureau Estimate

	Rank	Name	County	Pop.
Albuquerque Las Cruces	1	Albuquerque	Bernalillo	558,545	Rio Rancho Santa Fe
	2	Las Cruces	Doña Ana	101,712
	3	Rio Rancho	Sandoval / Bernalillo	96,159
	4	Santa Fe	Santa Fe	83,776
	5	Roswell	Chaves	47,775
	6	Farmington	San Juan	45,450
	7	Clovis	Curry	38,962
	8	Hobbs	Lea	37,764
	9	Alamogordo	Otero	31,248
	10	Carlsbad	Eddy	28,774

See List of municipalities in New Mexico for a full list.

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