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NEW MEXICO FUN FACTS
Billy the Kid shot by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner NM in 1881
First movie filmed in New Mexico was Indian Day School by Thomas A. Edison in 1898
Buddy Holly records Peggy Sue at Norman Petty studio in Clovis in 1957
Space shuttle Columbia lands at White Sands Space Harbor oil Holloman Air Force Base near Alamogordo.
The State Flower is the Yucca and it can be used to make rope, baskets and sandals.
State Tree is the Pinon
State Cookie is the Biscochito
Nickname for New Mexico is the Land of Enchantment
New Mexico is the only state that the International Airport is not at the State Capitol.
White Sands National Monument is a desert, not of sand, but of gleaming white gypsum crystals
The world’s first Atomic bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945 on the White Sands Testing Range near Alamogordo.
Las Cruces make the world’s largest enchilada the first weekend in October at the “Whole Enchilada Fiesta”
Each October Albuquerque host the world’s largest International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta
Santa Fe is the highest capital city in the United States at over 7,000 feet above sea level
The Rio Grande is New Mexico’s longest river and runs the entire length of New Mexico
The Palace of Governors in Santa Fe, built in 1610, is one of the oldest public buildings in America
In 1950 the little cub that was to become the National Fire Safety symbol, Smokey the Bear, was found trapped in a tree when his home in the Lincoln National forest was destroyed by fire. In 1963, in Smokey’s honor, the New Mexican Legislature chose the black bear to be the official state animal
The Navajo, the Nation’s largest Native American Group, have a reservation that covers 14 million acres.
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 ¾ of the roads are left unpaved. The roads don’t wash away
The city of Truth or Consequences was once called Hot Springs. In 1950 the town changed its name to the title of a popular Television quiz program
Ten of thousands of bats live in the Carlsbad Caverns.. The largest chamber of Carlsbad Caverns is more than ten football fields long and about 22 stories high
Moon Rocks can be found at the International Space Hall of Fame that is locate din Alamogordo.
Cimarron was once known as the “Cowboy Capital of the World” Some of the old west’s most famous names, such as Kit Carson and “Buffalo Bill” Cody lived there.
The town of Deming is known for its annual duck races
The world famous Santa Fe Opera has an open-air (outdoor) theater situated dramatically outside of the capital city in the foothills of the Sangria de Christo Mountains
New Mexico is known as the Green Chili Capital of the World
Taos Pueblo is located 2 miles north of the city of Taos. It is one of the oldest continuously occupied communities in the United States. People still live in some of its 900 year old buildings
Roswell the states 4th largest city was founded in 1869 when a professional gambler established a lone store on the cattle trail.
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