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New Mexico (Spanish: Nuevo México [ˈnweβo ˈmexiko] ^ⓘ; Navajo: Yootó Hahoodzo Navajo pronunciation: [jòːtʰó hɑ̀hòːtsò]) is a landlocked 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; 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. 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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Chetro Ketl is an Ancestral Puebloan great house and archeological site located in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, New Mexico, United States. Construction on Chetro Ketl began c. 990 and was largely complete by 1075, with significant remodeling occurring in the early and mid-1110s. Following the onset of a severe drought, most Chacoans emigrated from the canyon by 1140; by 1250 Chetro Ketl's last inhabitants had vacated the structure.

The great house was rediscovered in 1823 by the Mexican governor of New Mexico, José Antonio Vizcarra, and in 1849 Lieutenant James Simpson of the United States Army Corps of Engineers documented the major ruins in Chaco Canyon. Edgar L. Hewett, the director of the first archeological field school in the canyon, conducted excavations of Chetro Ketl during 1920 and 1921, and again between 1929 and 1935. (Full article...)

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The history of New Mexico is based on archaeological evidence, attesting to the varying cultures of humans occupying the area of New Mexico since approximately 9200 BCE, and written records. The earliest peoples had migrated from northern areas of North America after leaving Siberia via the Bering Land Bridge. Artifacts and architecture demonstrate ancient complex cultures in this region.

The first written records of the region were made by the Spanish conquistadors, who encountered Native American Pueblos when they explored the area in the 16th century. Since that time, the Spanish Empire, Mexico, and the United States (since 1787) have claimed control of the area. (Full article...)

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Image 1Party registration by New Mexico county (February 2023):
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(from New Mexico)
Image 2Serving food in Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940 (from History of New Mexico)
Image 3Tierra 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 4Symbols 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 5San Miguel Chapel, built in 1610 in Santa Fe, is the oldest church structure in the continental U.S. (from New Mexico)
Image 6Proposals for Texas northwestern boundary (from History of New Mexico)
Image 7Ancestral Pueblo territory shown in pink over New Mexico (from New Mexico)
Image 8Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) (from New Mexico)
Image 9A homesteader and his children at the New Mexico Fair in Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940 (from New Mexico)
Image 10Public New Mexico colleges and universities. New Mexico Higher Education Department. (from New Mexico)
Image 11Statue 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 12Jean Nicolas Du Tralage and Vincenzo Coronelli's 1687 map of New Mexico (from History of New Mexico)
Image 13Carlsbad Caverns National Park (from New Mexico)
Image 14Downtown Santa Fe train station (from New Mexico)
Image 15Albuquerque Studios, built in 2007 for the rising demand of film production in the state (from New Mexico)
Image 16A Hispano boy in Chamisal, 1940 (from New Mexico)
Image 17Shiprock (from New Mexico)
Image 18The Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad (from New Mexico)
Image 19The New Mexico Public Education Department is in Santa Fe. (from New Mexico)
Image 20Santa Fe trail sign (from New Mexico)
Image 21White Sands National Park (from New Mexico)
Image 22Province of New Mexico when it belonged to Mexico in 1824 (from History of New Mexico)
Image 23Bronze statue of Archbishop Lamy in front of St. Francis Cathedral (from History of New Mexico)
Image 24Greater roadrunner (the state bird of New Mexico) (from New Mexico)
Image 25Gen. Kearny's annexation of New Mexico, August 15, 1846 (from History of New Mexico)
Image 26José 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 27An F-22 Raptor flown by the 49th Fighter Wing at Holloman AFB (from New Mexico)
Image 28Wheeler Peak in the Sangre de Cristo Range (from New Mexico)
Image 29The New Mexico Rail Runner Express is a commuter operation that runs along the Central Rio Grande Valley. (from New Mexico)
Image 30In this photo, the Mexico–United States border divides Sunland Park and the Mexican state of Chihuahua. (from New Mexico)
Image 311867 map (from History of New Mexico)
Image 32Comancheria and the New Mexico settlements prior to 1850. (from History of New Mexico)
Image 33New Mexico proposed boundary before Compromise of 1850 (from History of New Mexico)
Image 34Spaceport America terminal, The Gateway (from New Mexico)
Image 35Köppen climate types of New Mexico, using 1991–2020 climate normals (from New Mexico)
Image 36New Mexico state quarter, circulated in April 2008 (from New Mexico)
Image 37Counties in New Mexico by racial plurality, per the 2020 U.S. census
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- Non-Hispanic White
    40–50%
  
    50–60%
  
    60–70%
  
    70–80%
  
  Native American
    40–50%
  
    80–90%
  
  Hispanic or Latino
    40–50%
  
    50–60%
  
    60–70%
  
    70–80%
(from New Mexico)
Image 38The Santa Ana Star Center (from New Mexico)
Image 39New Mexico population density map (from New Mexico)
Image 40"The indigenous people of northern New Mexico" by Balduin Möllhausen, 1861 (from New Mexico)
Image 41Luminarias in the old mission church, Jemez State Monument (from New Mexico)
Image 42Rio Grande Gorge and Bridge (from New Mexico)
Image 43President 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 44Interior of the Crosby Theater at the Santa Fe Opera, viewed from the mezzanine (from New Mexico)
Image 45Ethnic origins in New Mexico (from New Mexico)
Image 46Territory of Santa Fe de Nuevo México when it belonged to Mexico in 1824 (from New Mexico)
Image 47The railway station in Tucumcari (from New Mexico)

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... that New Mexico television station KIVA-TV received angry phone calls and a bomb threat after switching away from a tied football game?
... that Jesse Marcel claimed that he recovered extraterrestrial debris from a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico?
... that a New Mexico TV station went on the air "a day late but ... not a single program short"?
... 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 in 2007, Joe Garcia became the first governor of a pueblo to swear in the governor of New Mexico?
... that a Royal Air Force officer built a KAVE in New Mexico?

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