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New Mexico -is a state located in the southwest and western regions of the United States. New Mexico is also part of the Mountain States. With a population density of 16 per square mile, New Mexico is the sixthmost sparsely inhabited U.S. state. it has also been part of the Imperial Spanish viceroyalty of New Spain,rezulta New Mexico has the highest percentage of Hispanics, at 46 percent The first known inhabitants of New Mexico were members of the Clovis culture of Paleo-Indians.[14]:19 Later inhabitants include Native Americans of the Mogollon and the Anasazi cultures.[15]:52 By the time of European contact in the 16th century, the region was settled by the villages of the Pueblo peoples and groups of Navajo, Apache and Ute.[14]
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The Bisti -- a red, white, and black landscape of shales, sandstones, siltstones, mudstones and coal - dating to the late Cretaceous period (65-70 million years ago). It s an arid fantasy land replete with hoo-doos and fossilized trees. Poze Billy the Kid
NEW MEXICO STATE PARKS Did you know that that 70 percent of New Mexicans live within 40 miles of a State Park? New Mexico has 35 diverse state parks to explore, including cool lakes, mountain forests, canyons, desert beauty, and fascinating historical sites²even dinosaur tracks! New Mexico State Parks offer family-friendly settings, endless recreational opportunities, hundreds of special events and educational programs each year. In 2009, the parks attracted 4.5 million visitors.
Hystory The Clovis culture (sometimes referred to as the Llano culture[1]) is a prehistoric Paleo-Indian culture that first appears 11,500 RCYBP (radiocarbon years before present[2]), at the end of the last glacial period, characterized by the manufacture of "Clovis points" and distinctive bone and ivory tools. Archaeologists' most precise determinations at present suggest that this radiocarbon age is equal to roughly 13,500 to 13,000 calendar years ago. SOCORRO
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See also: List of people from New Mexico
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With a Nati e American population of 134,000 in 1990, New Mexico still ranks as an important center of Nati e American culture. Both the Navajo and Apache share Athabaskan origin. The Apache and some Ute live on federal reservations within the state. With 16 million acres (6,500,000 ha), mostly in neighboring Arizona, the reservation of the Navajo Nation ranks as the largest in the United States. The prehistorically agricultural Pueblo Indians live in pueblos scattered throughout the state. More than one-third of New Mexicans claim Hispanic origin, many are descendants of colonial settlers, and converted Sephardic Jews. They settled in the northern portion of the state. Most of the Mexican immigrants reside in the southern part of the state. There are many New Mexicans who also speak a unique dialect of Spanish.New Mexican Spanish has vocabulary often unknown to other Spanish speakers. Because of the historical isolation of New Mexico from other speakers of the Spanish language, the local dialect preserves some late medieval Castilian vocabulary considered archaic elsewhere, adopts numerous Native American words for local features, and contains much Anglicized vocabulary for American concepts and modern invention s.
A UFO e c e with occ ts in Socorro, New Me ico took place on April 24, 1964, and involved police an Lonnie Zamora. This encounter is one of the best documented events with physical trace evidence. Some other e amples of UFO trace evidence can be found in the Tulley Saucer Nest case and the Delphos, Kansas Glowing Ring case. Ent d th Union: February 14, 1912 (48 Capital: Santa Fe igin of Name: From Me ico, place of Me itli, an Aztec god or leader tate Ni name: Land of Enchantment State Bi d: Roadrunner State Motto: Crescit eundo (It grows as it goes State Tree: Piñon State Gem: Turquoise State Flo er: Yucca State Song: O Fair New Me ico" State Animal: Black Bear National Parks: 3 National Forests: 7 State Parks: 32 Famous for: Carlsbad Caverns, White Sands, Gila Cliff Dwellings Famous New Mexi ans: William "Billy the Kid" Bonney (outlaw), Ralph Bunche (Nobel Peace Prize winner), Glen Campbell (singer), Kit Carson (army scout), John Chisum (cattle king), John Denver (singer), Bo Diddley (blues guitarist), Patrick Garrett (lawman), Sid Guitierrez (astronaut), William Hanna
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Each October Albuquerque hosts the world's largest international hot air balloon fiesta. Las Cruces makes the world's largest enchilada the first weekend in October at the "Whole Enchilada Fiesta". The world's first Atomic Bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945 on the White Sands Testing Range near Alamogordo. North of the impact point a small placard marks the area known as Trinity Site. The bomb was designed and manufactured in Los Alamos. White Sands National Monument is a desert, not of sand, but of gleaming white gypsum crystals. Hatch is known as the "Green Chile capital of the world". The largest fire in the state's history was ignited on May 4, 2000 i n the National Park Service's Bandelier National Monument, when a controlled burn meant to clear away dry brush and prevent future wild fires leaped out of control due to high winds. 25,000 people, including all the residents of Los Alamos, were forced to evacuate their homes. The Navajo, the Nation's largest Native American Group, have a reservation that covers 14 million Acres. To a certain degree New Mexico's Indian Reservations function as states within a state where tribal law may supersede state law. New Mexico's State Constitution officially states that New Mexico is a bilingual State, and 1 out of 3 families in New Mexico speak Spanish at home. The Palace of Governors in Santa Fe is the oldest Government Building in the United States. 1 out of 4 workers in New Mexico work directly for the Federal Government. State and local governments are also major employers. New Mexico has far more sheep and cattle than people. There are only about 12 people per square mile. Since New Mexico's climate is so dry 3/4 of the roads are left unpaved. The roads don't wash away. On the same desert grounds where today's space age missiles are tested, ten-thousand-year-old arrowheads have been found.
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New Mexican history has ranged from arrows to atoms and has embraced Indian, Spanish and Anglo cultures. Few states can claim such a distinctive past. Santa Fe, the oldest capital city in the United States, was founded in 1610. In 1986 governor Toney Anaya declared that New Mexico would serve as a sanctuary for Central American refugees.
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The Bisti
The Bisti -- a red, white, and black landscape of shales, sandstones, siltstones, mudstones and coal - dating to the late Cretaceous period (65-70 million years ago). It s an arid fantasy land replete with hoo-doos and fossilized trees. Poze Billy the Kid
NEW MEXICO STATE PARKS Did you know that that 70 percent of New Mexicans live within 40 miles of a State Park? New Mexico has 35 diverse state parks to explore, including cool lakes, mountain forests, canyons, desert beauty, and fascinating historical sites²even dinosaur tracks! New Mexico State Parks offer family-friendly settings, endless recreational opportunities, hundreds of special events and educational programs each year. In 2009, the parks attracted 4.5 million visitors.
Hystory The Clovis culture (sometimes referred to as the Llano culture[1]) is a prehistoric Paleo-Indian culture that first appears 11,500 RCYBP (radiocarbon years before present[2]), at the end of the last glacial period, characterized by the manufacture of "Clovis points" and distinctive bone and ivory tools. Archaeologists' most precise determinations at present suggest that this radiocarbon age is equal to roughly 13,500 to 13,000 calendar years ago. SOCORRO
Culture
See also: List of people from New Mexico
Symbol of t Sout a market near Santa Fe
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of chili peppers and a bleached white cow's skull hang in
With a Nati e American population of 134,000 in 1990, New Mexico still ranks as an important center of Nati e American culture. Both the Navajo and Apache share Athabaskan origin. The Apache and some Ute live on federal reservations within the state. With 16 million acres (6,500,000 ha), mostly in neighboring Arizona, the reservation of the Navajo Nation ranks as the largest in the United States. The prehistorically agricultural Pueblo Indians live in pueblos scattered throughout the state. More than one-third of New Mexicans claim Hispanic origin, many are descendants of colonial settlers, and converted Sephardic Jews. They settled in the northern portion of the state. Most of the Mexican immigrants reside in the southern part of the state. There are many New Mexicans who also speak a unique dialect of Spanish.New Mexican Spanish has vocabulary often unknown to other Spanish speakers. Because of the historical isolation of New Mexico from other speakers of the Spanish language, the local dialect preserves some late medieval Castilian vocabulary considered archaic elsewhere, adopts numerous Native American words for local features, and contains much Anglicized vocabulary for American concepts and modern invention s.
A UFO e c e with occ ts in Socorro, New Me ico took place on April 24, 1964, and involved police an Lonnie Zamora. This encounter is one of the best documented events with physical trace evidence. Some other e amples of UFO trace evidence can be found in the Tulley Saucer Nest case and the Delphos, Kansas Glowing Ring case. Ent d th Union: February 14, 1912 (48 Capital: Santa Fe igin of Name: From Me ico, place of Me itli, an Aztec god or leader tate Ni name: Land of Enchantment State Bi d: Roadrunner State Motto: Crescit eundo (It grows as it goes State Tree: Piñon State Gem: Turquoise State Flo er: Yucca State Song: O Fair New Me ico" State Animal: Black Bear National Parks: 3 National Forests: 7 State Parks: 32 Famous for: Carlsbad Caverns, White Sands, Gila Cliff Dwellings Famous New Mexi ans: William "Billy the Kid" Bonney (outlaw), Ralph Bunche (Nobel Peace Prize winner), Glen Campbell (singer), Kit Carson (army scout), John Chisum (cattle king), John Denver (singer), Bo Diddley (blues guitarist), Patrick Garrett (lawman), Sid Guitierrez (astronaut), William Hanna
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Each October Albuquerque hosts the world's largest international hot air balloon fiesta. Las Cruces makes the world's largest enchilada the first weekend in October at the "Whole Enchilada Fiesta". The world's first Atomic Bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945 on the White Sands Testing Range near Alamogordo. North of the impact point a small placard marks the area known as Trinity Site. The bomb was designed and manufactured in Los Alamos. White Sands National Monument is a desert, not of sand, but of gleaming white gypsum crystals. Hatch is known as the "Green Chile capital of the world". The largest fire in the state's history was ignited on May 4, 2000 i n the National Park Service's Bandelier National Monument, when a controlled burn meant to clear away dry brush and prevent future wild fires leaped out of control due to high winds. 25,000 people, including all the residents of Los Alamos, were forced to evacuate their homes. The Navajo, the Nation's largest Native American Group, have a reservation that covers 14 million Acres. To a certain degree New Mexico's Indian Reservations function as states within a state where tribal law may supersede state law. New Mexico's State Constitution officially states that New Mexico is a bilingual State, and 1 out of 3 families in New Mexico speak Spanish at home. The Palace of Governors in Santa Fe is the oldest Government Building in the United States. 1 out of 4 workers in New Mexico work directly for the Federal Government. State and local governments are also major employers. New Mexico has far more sheep and cattle than people. There are only about 12 people per square mile. Since New Mexico's climate is so dry 3/4 of the roads are left unpaved. The roads don't wash away. On the same desert grounds where today's space age missiles are tested, ten-thousand-year-old arrowheads have been found.
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New Mexican history has ranged from arrows to atoms and has embraced Indian, Spanish and Anglo cultures. Few states can claim such a distinctive past. Santa Fe, the oldest capital city in the United States, was founded in 1610. In 1986 governor Toney Anaya declared that New Mexico would serve as a sanctuary for Central American refugees.
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