Albuquerque is New Mexico’s largest city, with a population of almost half a million. It is in the
heart of Native American Pueblo country, the olest farming community in North America.
!panish colonists who came to settle on the ban"s of the #io $rane officially foune the town
in %&'(. )hey name the town after the !panish *u"e of Alburquerque +an later roppe the
first ,r- in the spelling..