New Mexico Facts
To give you a better outlook of how New Mexico is really like, here is a collection of New Mexico facts that will help you to better understand this State.
Let's start with the capital Santa Fe. This city is the highest state capital in the entire United States standing at a whooping 7000 feet above sea level. Also this city is the home of some of the oldest public buildings in the United States. The Palace of Governors was built in 1610 and it still stands in quite a good condition to this date.
Some quick facts about New Mexico: the roads are mostly unpaved as the really low rains never wash them away; it is estimated that around three quarters of all the New Mexico roads are in this condition. Talking of rain and water, New Mexico lakes are very few and very small; the entire lake area is not bigger than 0. 002 percent of the entire state area. The biggest lake is in fact a man made reservoir and stands because of a dam construction on the Rio Grande.
Some other interesting New Mexico facts include that this state has the largest Native American population. The Navajo Native population alone have reservations at about 14 million acres. Other Native American populations include Pueblo, Comanche, Apache and Ute to name just a few of them. The city of Gallup sees annually in mid August the Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial. With over twenty communities of Native Americans represented this is the largest reunion of its kind in the world and has attracted the surname of the Indian Capital of the World for the small city that holds it.
It is now time to go over some New Mexico history facts. Los Alamos is the very place where the atom bomb was invented and Alamogordo was the first testing site for such a bomb. This fact alone was enough to transform the state in that period in the state with the highest Ph. D. density per capita. New Mexico is also the biggest uranium supplier in the United States and most of the bombs built in the World War Two and The Cold War were using uranium harvested from here.
To go a little deeper in the history of New Mexico, this place was once the home of the Anasazi population which were the ancestors of the Pueblo, the peak of their civilization occurred during 1100 and 1200 AD.
These New Mexico facts are enough I think to stir your imagination and will to actually go and visit this place. The arid deserts, the beautiful forests, the craftsmanship of the Native American population and the wide spaces will make you fall in love with New Mexico.