Popular Iconic New Mexico Foods That Require Clean Water
New Mexico is famous for the following foods:
Carne Adovada
Posole
Biscochito
Enchiladas
Green Chile Stew
Sopaipillas
Fun Facts
New Mexico was named by the Spanish for lands north of the Rio Grande (Nuevo Mexico). The word Mexico is named after Mexitli, an Aztec war god. Mexico means ‘place where Mexitli lives.”
At 7,198 feet above sea level, Santa Fe is the highest capital city in the United States.
New Mexico has the largest Hispanic population of all the states. As of 2010, about 46.3% of the state’s population are Hispanics.
Micro-Soft was founded on April 4, 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The company moved to Bellevue, Washington, in 1979 since it was hard to recruit top programmers to Albuquerque.
New Mexico’s the only state with an official question: “Red or green?”
Founded in 1610, Santa Fe, New Mexico is the oldest capital city in the United States.
The world’s first detonation of a nuclear weapon took place on July 16, 1945, in the Jornada del Muerto desert about 35 miles southeast of Socorro, New Mexico.
New Mexico is one of the states that form the Four Corners, the only location in the United States where four states intersect at one point. The other three states are Arizona, Colorado, and Utah.
New Mexico is the only state in the United States where lawmakers don’t receive salaries. New Mexico’s lawmakers do enjoy a generous pension plan.
This page was last updated on July 31, 2022.
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