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What state am I ?

Capital, Santa Fe. Largest city, Albuquerque. Statehood, Jan. 6, 1912 . What state am I ? . The capital of New Mexico is Santa Fe , and the largest city is Albuquerque . What state am I ? . State bird, chaparral . What state am I ? . State bird, chaparral .

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What state am I ?

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  1. Capital, Santa Fe. Largest city, Albuquerque. Statehood, Jan. 6, 1912 What state am I ?

  2. The capital of New Mexico is Santa Fe, and the largest city is Albuquerque. What state am I ?

  3. State bird, chaparral What state am I ? State bird, chaparral

  4. Use of the land and minerals of New Mexico goes back to the prehistoric time of the early cultures in the Southwest that long preceded the flourishing sedentary civilization of the Pueblos that the Spanish found along the Rio Grande and its tributaries. What state am I ?

  5. What state am I ? At the beginning of the 1990s the Native American population of New Mexico was more than 134,000.

  6. What state am I ? Area, 121,666 sq mi (315,115 sq km). Pop. (2000) 1,819,046, a 20.1% increase since the 1990 census .

  7. Highest pt., Wheeler Peak, 13,161 ft (4,014 m); lowest pt., Red Bluff Reservoir, 2,817 ft (859 m). Nickname, Land of Enchantment. What state am I ?

  8. What state am I ? New Mexico is roughly bisected by the Rio Grande and has an approximate mean altitude of 5,700 ft (1,737 m). The topography of the state is marked by broken mesas, wide deserts, heavily forested mountain wildernesses,

  9. The mountain ranges, part of the Rocky Mts., rising to their greatest height (more than 13,000 ft/3,962 m) in the Sangre de Cristo Mts., are in broken groups, running north to south through central New Mexico and flanking the Rio Grande. In the southwest is the Gila Wilderness. What state am I ?

  10. What state am I ? New Mexico, are covered with cactus, yucca, creosote bush, sagebrush, and desert grasses. Water is rare in these regions, and the scanty rainfall is subject to rapid evaporation. The two notable rivers besides the Rio Grande–the Pecos

  11. What state am I? Water is rare in these regions, and the scanty rainfall is subject to rapid evaporation. The two notable rivers besides the Rio Grande–the Pecos and the San Juan–are used for some

  12. What state am I ? The first atom bomb was exploded at the White Sands Proving Grounds in July, 1945.

  13. High-altitude experiments were apparently responsible for a 1947 incident near Roswell that led to persistent claims that the government was concealing captured extraterrestrial corpses and equipment. In the 1990s What state am I ?

  14. New Mexico's climate, tranquility, and startling panoramas have made the state a place of winter or year-round residence for those seeking health or a place of retirement. What state am I ?

  15. What state am I? New Mexico

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