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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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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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Gerónimo (Mescalero-Chiricahua: Goyaałé, Athapascan pronunciation: [kòjàːɬɛ́], lit. 'the one who yawns'; June 16, 1829 – February 17, 1909) was a military leader and medicine man from the Bedonkohe band of the Ndendahe Apache people. From 1850 to 1886, Geronimo joined with members of three other Central Apache bands – the Tchihende, the Tsokanende (called Chiricahua by Americans) and the Nednhi – to carry out numerous raids, as well as fight against Mexican and U.S. military campaigns in the northern Mexico states of Chihuahua and Sonora and in the southwestern American territories of New Mexico and Arizona.

Geronimo's raids and related combat actions were a part of the prolonged period of the Apache–United States conflict, which started with the Americans continuing to take land, including Apache lands, following the end of the war with Mexico in 1848. Reservation life was confining to the free-moving Apache people, and they resented restrictions on their customary way of life. Geronimo led breakouts from the reservations in attempts to return his people to their previous nomadic lifestyle. During Geronimo's final period of conflict from 1876 to 1886, he surrendered three times and eventually accepted life on the Apache reservations. While well-known, Geronimo was not a chief of the Bedonkohe band of the Central Apache but a shaman, as was Nokay-doklini among the Western Apache. However, since he was a superb leader in raiding and warfare, he frequently led large numbers of 30 to 50 Apache men. (Full article...)

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Image 1José 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 2Rio Grande Gorge and Bridge (from New Mexico)
Image 3Party registration by New Mexico county (February 2023):
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(from New Mexico)
Image 4The Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad (from New Mexico)
Image 5In this photo, the Mexico–United States border divides Sunland Park and the Mexican state of Chihuahua. (from New Mexico)
Image 6Greater roadrunner (the state bird of New Mexico) (from New Mexico)
Image 7Comancheria and the New Mexico settlements prior to 1850. (from History of New Mexico)
Image 8Symbols 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 9The New Mexico Rail Runner Express is a commuter operation that runs along the Central Rio Grande Valley. (from New Mexico)
Image 10The railway station in Tucumcari (from New Mexico)
Image 11Albuquerque Studios, built in 2007 for the rising demand of film production in the state (from New Mexico)
Image 12New Mexico proposed boundary before Compromise of 1850 (from History of New Mexico)
Image 13San Miguel Chapel, built in 1610 in Santa Fe, is the oldest church structure in the continental U.S. (from New Mexico)
Image 14Downtown Santa Fe train station (from New Mexico)
Image 15New Mexico state quarter, circulated in April 2008 (from New Mexico)
Image 16White Sands National Park (from New Mexico)
Image 17A homesteader and his children at the New Mexico Fair in Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940 (from New Mexico)
Image 18Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) (from New Mexico)
Image 19Public New Mexico colleges and universities. New Mexico Higher Education Department. (from New Mexico)
Image 20Shiprock (from New Mexico)
Image 21Tierra 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 22Köppen climate types of New Mexico, using 1991–2020 climate normals (from New Mexico)
Image 23The Santa Ana Star Center (from New Mexico)
Image 24Statue 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 25Ancestral Pueblo territory shown in pink over New Mexico (from New Mexico)
Image 26Carlsbad Caverns National Park (from New Mexico)
Image 27Spaceport America terminal, The Gateway (from New Mexico)
Image 28Proposals for Texas northwestern boundary (from History of New Mexico)
Image 29Ethnic origins in New Mexico (from New Mexico)
Image 30Wheeler Peak in the Sangre de Cristo Range (from New Mexico)
Image 31Gen. Kearny's annexation of New Mexico, August 15, 1846 (from History of New Mexico)
Image 32An F-22 Raptor flown by the 49th Fighter Wing at Holloman AFB (from New Mexico)
Image 33Santa Fe trail sign (from New Mexico)
Image 34A Hispano boy in Chamisal, 1940 (from New Mexico)
Image 35Bronze statue of Archbishop Lamy in front of St. Francis Cathedral (from History of New Mexico)
Image 361867 map (from History of New Mexico)
Image 37New Mexico population density map (from New Mexico)
Image 38Province of New Mexico when it belonged to Mexico in 1824 (from History of New Mexico)
Image 39Territory of Santa Fe de Nuevo México when it belonged to Mexico in 1824 (from New Mexico)
Image 40Interior of the Crosby Theater at the Santa Fe Opera, viewed from the mezzanine (from New Mexico)
Image 41Serving food in Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940 (from History of New Mexico)
Image 42President 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 43Counties in New Mexico by racial plurality, per the 2020 U.S. census
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    50–60%
  
    60–70%
  
    70–80%
  
  Native American
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    80–90%
  
  Hispanic or Latino
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    50–60%
  
    60–70%
  
    70–80%
(from New Mexico)
Image 44Jean Nicolas Du Tralage and Vincenzo Coronelli's 1687 map of New Mexico (from History of New Mexico)
Image 45The New Mexico Public Education Department is in Santa Fe. (from New Mexico)
Image 46"The indigenous people of northern New Mexico" by Balduin Möllhausen, 1861 (from New Mexico)
Image 47Luminarias in the old mission church, Jemez State Monument (from New Mexico)

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... that a Royal Air Force officer built a KAVE in New Mexico?
... that Sunday-school classes were once held in the transmitter building of New Mexico radio station KCLV?
... that New Mexico television station KIVA-TV received angry phone calls and a bomb threat after switching away from a tied football game?
... that in 2007, Joe Garcia became the first governor of a pueblo to swear in the governor of New Mexico?
... 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 Jesse Marcel claimed that he recovered extraterrestrial debris from a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico?

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