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Also known as the Land of Enchantment, New Mexico uses this in tourist
promotion.
The state capital of New Mexico is Santa Fe.
Santa
Fe Weather - New Mexico
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New Mexico comes from the Spanish name of Nuevo
Mexico; given to the region north of Mexico by a Spanish explorer
in the 1560s.
States neighbouring New Mexico are: Arizona,
Utah, Colorado, Oklahoma
and Texas. New Mexico also borders Mexico.
About New Mexico:
Find out more about New Mexico before you travel there. Order tourist brochures and look
at where you'd like to stay.
New Mexico is still a place to explore and meditate upon, a land rich
in history with a light that does wonders to nature's palette.
New Mexico State:
The government of New Mexico's block on the information highway.
See New Mexico:
The Department of Tourism's enchanting website; split into five sections for easy
navigation.
Southern
New Mexico Attractions:
Along with being the centre of commerce and culture in Southern New Mexico, Las Cruces is
surrounded by beautiful vistas and abundant wildlife. Close by, are the Organ Mountains,
White Sands and the Gila Wilderness. As an added bonus, the region is blessed with
sunshine 350 days per year.
New Mexico honours its Native American and Spanish heritage in
many historical sites.
Acoma Pueblo is believed to be the oldest continually occupied
settlement in the United States.
Other Native American sites in New Mexico include the Aztec Ruins
National Monument, and Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument.
The wonderful light, pleasant climate, and adobe buildings make
Santa Fe a year-round tourist attraction and a popular place with artists.
Situated near the beautiful Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Santa Fe is
particularly well known for its Native American and Spanish-style handicrafts.
The Plaza de Santa Fe has been the centre of town since its founding
in 1610.
Historical Santa Fe:
The Palace of the Governors was built by the Spanish in 1610 and is the oldest public
building in the United States.
Santa Fe's Mission of San Miguel, also dating from 1610, is one of the
oldest churches in the country too.
American troops occupied Santa Fe during the Mexican War and New
Mexico was ceded to the United States two years later, in 1848.
Bandelier National Monument is
40 miles north-west of Santa Fe, and features amazing Pueblos and cliff dwellings. There
are some 50 miles of hiking trails that lead to interesting cave and canyon discoveries.
The Santa Fe Site:
A range of articles about all kinds of subjects relating to Santa Fe.
Santa Fe Museums
Santa Fe has many museums and private galleries, and is home to the
Institute of American Indian Arts.
Santa Fe:
Artists enjoy the warm light of Santa Fe, where many of the buildings seem like an exhibit
themselves.
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The Taos area is another favoured retreat of artists and New
Agers, after Santa Fe. The many galleries and museums exhibit the results of the Taos
inspiration.
Taos Pueblo
Much of the pueblo remains off limits to visitors -- would you want
hordes of strangers peering into your home?
If you want to record what you can see, then you have to pay for a
camera permit, sketch permit, or painting permit.
For the prices that some of the paintings go for, it's not surprising
that a painting permit costs more.
Picuris Pueblo is 20 miles south of Taos, less visited, and more
friendly. Things could always change.
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Gallup is a trading centre for Navajo and Zuņi Native American
peoples who live nearby. An annual intertribal ceremonial is also held locally.
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The Chaco Culture National
Historical Park, in north- western New Mexico, is a testament to a pueblo culture that
thrived in the canyon from AD 50 to 1150.
From the ruins it has been established that there was an extensive
irrigation system and road network; parts of which are still visible.
The largest and best-preserved site is Pueblo Bonito, a 10th-century,
five-storey building.
The largest city in New Mexico is more than just a transport hub
for people passing through.
Do yourself a favour and make a stop in Albuquerque to discover the
Spanish flavour in the Old Town too.
Old Town Albuquerque:
If only more historic locations would have preserved their heritage instead of ripping out
the guts of a city for characterless skyscrapers.
Kirkland Air Force Base
The chilling site of the National
Atomic Museum is at 20358 Wyoming Blvd., a few miles south-east of downtown
Albuquerque.
Nearby are the Sandia Mountains; several Native American pueblos,
notably at Coronado State Monument; and Petroglyph State Park, with old Native American
and Spanish carvings on lava.
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The Carlsbad Caverns National Park is in the semiarid foothills of
the Guadalupe Mountains in south-eastern New Mexico.
With about 28 miles of explored corridors and chambers, deep below the
earth's surface, the caverns are one of the largest and oldest cave systems in the world.
The caverns are believed to have been hollowed out, beginning about 60
million years ago, by the dissolving action of water on limestone.
Carlsbad Caverns:
Established as a national monument in 1923, it became a national park in 1930.
Nearly 1 million bats inhabit the caverns, emerging nightly from May
to October in search of insects.
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