New Mexico Corporate Housing
by Embee's Property Management, LLC
Facts About New Mexico
Capital: Santa Fe
Population: 1,874,614
Governor: Bill Richardson (D)
Statehood: 47th state admitted on January 6, 1912
Motto: Crescit Eundo (It Grows As It Goes)
Nickname: The Land of Enchantment
Highest Point Wheeler Peak, northeast of Taos,
13,161 feet
Lowest Point Red Bluff Reservoir, along the Texas border south of Carlsbad
State Song: O, Fair New Mexico
State Bird: Roadrunner
State Flower: Yucca Flower
State Tree: Piñon
State Grass Blue Grama
State Fish Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout
State Animal Black Bear
State Vegetables Chile and Pinto Beans
State Gem Turquoise
State Fossil Coelophysis
State Insect Tarantula Hawk Wasp
State Cookie Bizcochito
New Mexico is actually the fifth largest state in the United States with 121,335 square miles
New Mexico's geography includes colorful mesas, lava flows, extinct volcano areas, unusual rock formations among cliffs and mountains, and Carlsbad Caverns. New Mexico also has approximately 20 million acres of forested land, 8.5 million of which is designated as National Forest. Ancient seas that once covered the land left behind fossil beds scattered throughout the state.
While the climate is generally considered dry because of the low humidity, water fills mountain lakes and streams as the winter snows melt in the spring. Rainfall is most abundant during the summer months of the monsoon season when the billowing masses of cumulus clouds erupt into afternoon showers.
The vast tracts of land in New Mexico provide a wealth of natural resources for farming, ranching, and manufacturing. New Mexico's economy is as diverse as its cultural roots. It includes hundreds of art galleries, challenging ski areas, a booming dairy industry, international trade with Mexico, and a proliferation of technological breakthroughs due to the presence of national laboratories in Albuquerque and Los Alamos to name but a few. New Mexico is also one of the largest energy producing states in the nation, ranking fourth in natural gas production in 1992.
New Mexico is a blend of ancient cultural traditions and striking environmental diversity. Its unique multi-cultural personality and character truly make it America's Land of Enchantment and a state worth further exploration.
New Mexico's state flower is in fact a plant native to the deserts of the Southwest. The yucca is also known as the "Lamparas de dios" which translates to "Lamps of the Lord" due to the bright mass of white flowers that protrude from a center stalk within the plant. The yucca is not only an attractive plant;
it is has also been an important resource in past
decades as its roots and palm-like leaves provided
materials for the making of soap and baskets for those
residing in the Southwest.
Each October Albuquerque hosts the world's largest international hot air balloon fiesta.
Las Cruces makes the world's largest enchilada the first
weekend in October at the "Whole Enchilada Fiesta".
The world's first Atomic Bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945 on the White Sands Testing Range near Alamogordo. North of the impact point a small placard marks the area known as Trinity Site. The bomb was designed and manufactured in Los Alamos.
White Sands National Monument is a desert, not of sand, but of gleaming white gypsum crystals.
Hatch is known as the "Green Chile capital of the world".
The largest fire in the state's history was ignited on May 4, 2000 in the National Park Service's Bandelier National Monument, when a controlled burn meant to clear away dry brush and prevent future wild fires leaped out of control due to high winds. 25,000 people, including all the residents of Los Alamos, were forced to evacuate their homes.
The Navajo, the Nation's largest Native American Group, have a reservation that covers 14 million Acres.
To a certain degree New Mexico's Indian Reservations function as states within a state where tribal law may supersede state law.
New Mexico's State Constitution officially states that New Mexico is a bilingual State, and 1 out of 3 families in New Mexico speak Spanish at home.
The Palace of Governors in Santa Fe is the oldest Government Building in the United States.
1 out of 4 workers in New Mexico work directly for the Federal Government. State and local governments are also major employers.
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 3/4 of the roads are left unpaved. The roads don't wash away.
On the same desert grounds where today's space age missiles are tested, ten-thousand-year-old arrowheads have been found.
New Mexican history has ranged from arrows to atoms and has embraced Indian, Spanish and Anglo cultures. Few states can claim such a distinctive past.
Santa Fe, the oldest capital city in the United States, was founded in 1610.
In 1986 governor Toney Anaya declared that New Mexico would serve as a sanctuary for Central American refugees
Carlsbad Cavern Tours
Carlsbad Caverns National Park - Established to preserve Carlsbad Cavern and numerous other caves within a Permian-age fossil reef, the park contains over 85 known caves, including Lechuguilla Cave—the nation's deepest limestone cave at 1,567 feet (478m) and third longest. Carlsbad Cavern, with one of the world's largest underground chambers and countless formations, is highly accessible, with a variety of tours offered year-round.
Cave Tours
All visitors to the park should tour the main section of the cave, the Big Room self-guided tour. The 8.2-acre Big Room is partially wheelchair accessible. The Natural Entrance self-guided tour is also very impressive, but it is also more difficult due to the steepness of the trail.
Guided tours of varying difficulties are also available—from the self-guided areas of the Big Room to crawling through narrow passageways in the Hall of the White Giant or in Spider Cave. To reserve tickets for a guided tour, call our reservation service at 1.877.444.6777.
Aztec Ruins National Monument - Aztec Ruins National Monument reserves structures and
artifacts of Ancestral Pueblo people from the 1100's through 1200s. People associated with
Chaco Canyon to the south built and used the structures, then people related to the Mesa
Verde region to the north used the site in the
1200's.
Bandelier National Monument - On the canyon-slashed slopes and bottoms of the Pajarito
Plateau are the ruins of many cliff houses and pueblo style dwellings of 13th-century Pueblo
Indians.
Capulin Volcano National Monument - Capulin Volcano, a nearly perfectly-shaped cinder
one, stands more than 1200 feet above the surrounding High Plains of northeastern New
Mexico. The volcano is long extinct, and today the forested slopes provide habitat for mule deer, wild turkey, black bear and other wildlife. Abundant displays of wildflowers bloom on the mountain each summer. A 2-mile paved road spiraling to the volcano rim makes Capulin Volcano one of the most accessible volcanoes in the world. Trails leading around the rim and to the bottom of the crater allow a rare opportunity to easily explore a volcano.
Chaco Culture National Historic Park - Chaco Culture National Historical Park preserves one of America's richest and most facinating cultural and historic areas. Chaco Canyon was a major center of ancestral Puebloan culture between A.D. 850 and 1250. It was a hub of ceremony, trade, and government for the prehistoric Four Corners area - and a phenomenon unlike anything before or since.
El Malpais National Monument - This monument preserves 114,277 acres of which 109,260 acres are federal and 5,017 acres are private. El Malpais means "the badlands" but contrary to its name this unique area holds many surprises, many of which researchers are now unraveling. Volcanic features such as lava flows, cinder cones, pressure ridges and complex lava tube systems dominate the landscape. Closer inspection reveals unique ecosystems with complex relationships. Sandstone bluffs and mesas border the eastern side, providing access to vast wilderness.
El Morro National Monument - "Inscription Rock" is a soft sandstone monolith, rising 200 feet above the valley floor, on which are carved hundreds of inscriptions. The monument also includes pre-Columbian petroglyphs and Pueblo Indian ruins.
Fort Union National Monument - Fort Union was established in 1851 by Lieutenant Colonel Edwin V. Sumner as a guardian and protector of the Santa Fe Trail. During it's forty-year history, three different forts were constructed close together. The third and final Fort Union was the largest in the American Southwest, and functioned as a military garrison, territorial arsenal, and military supply depot for the southwest. Today, visitors use a self-guided tour path to visit the second fort and the large, impressive ruins of the third Fort Union. The largest visible network of Santa Fe Trail ruts can be seen here.
Gilla Cliff Dwellings National Monument - Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument offers a glimpse of the homes and lives of the people of the Mogollon culture who lived there from the 1280s through the early 1300s. The surroundings probably look today very much like they did when the cliff dwellings were inhabited. It is surrounded by the Gila National Forest and lies at the edge of the Gila Wilderness, the nation's first designated wilderness area. This designation means that the wilderness character of the area will not be altered by the intrusion of roads or other evidence of human presence.
Pecos National Historic Park - Pecos preserves 12,000 years of history including the ancient pueblo of Pecos, two Spanish Colonial Missions, Santa Fe Trail sites, 20th century ranch history of Forked Lightning Ranch, and the site of the Civil War Battle of Glorieta Pass.
Petroglyph National Monument - More than 20,000 prehistoric and historic Native American and Hispanic petroglyphs (images carved in rock) stretch 17-miles along Albuquerque's West Mesa escarpment. Associated archeological sites provide important chapters in a 12,000 year- long story of human life in the Albuquerque area.
Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument - Once, thriving American Indian trade communities of Tiwa and Tompiro speaking Puebloans inhabited this remote frontier area of central New Mexico. Early in the 17th-century Spanish Franciscans found the area ripe for their missionary efforts. However, by the late 1670s the entire Salinas District, as the Spanish had named it, was depopulated of both Indian and Spaniard. What remains today are austere yet beautiful reminders of this earliest contact between Pueblo Indians and Spanish Colonials: the ruins of four mission churches, at Quarai, Abó, and Gran Quivira and the partially excavated pueblo of Las Humanas or, as it is known today, Gran Quivira.
Santa Fe National Historic Trail - Between 1821 and 1880, the Santa Fe Trail was primarily a commercial highway connecting Missouri and Santa Fe, New Mexico. From 1821 until 1846, it was an international commercial highway used by Mexican and American traders. In 1846, the Mexican-American War began. The Army of the West followed the Santa Fe Trail to invade New Mexico. When the Treaty of Guadalupe ended the war in 1848, the Santa Fe Trail became a national road connecting the United States to the new southwest territories. Commercial freighting along the trail continued, including considerable military freight hauling to supply the southwestern forts. The trail was also used by stage coach lines, thousands of gold seekers heading to the California and Colorado gold fields, adventurers, fur trappers, and some emigrants. In 1880 the railroad reached Santa Fe and the trail faded into history.
White Sands National Monument - At the northern end of the Chihuahuan Desert lies a mountain ringed valley, the Tularosa Basin. Rising from the heart of this basin is one of the world's great natural wonders - the glistening white sands of New Mexico. Here, great wave-like dunes of gypsum sand have engulfed 275 square miles of desert and have created the world's largest gypsum dune field. The brilliant white dunes are ever changing: growing, cresting, then slumping, but always advancing. Slowly but relentlessly the sand, driven by strong southwest winds, covers everything in its path.
People actually get married in N.M.
Our Daughters Wedding
Tent Rock
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2010 Events
Spring 2010
Ruidoso April 23-25 - Ruidoso Kite Festival on the White Mountain Sports Complex Soccer Field. 575-257-5575 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 575-257-5575 end_of_the_skype_highlighting or www.ruidosokitefestival.com
Los Ojos April 24 - Tierra Wools Spring Harvest Festival in Los Ojos. 575-588-7231 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 575-588-7231 end_of_the_skype_highlighting or www.handweavers.com
Silver City April 28-May 2 - 24th annual SRAM Tour of the Gila. 575-388-3222 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 575-388-3222 end_of_the_skype_highlighting or www.tourofthegila.com
White Sands April 30 - Full Moon Bike Ride at White Sands National Monument. Reservations for bike rides accepted up to three days before the event. 575-679-2599 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 575-679-2599 end_of_the_skype_highlighting, Ext. 236 or www.nps.gov/whsa.
Santa Fe Fiesta Contest Selection 7pm Thursday April 29 at the Lensic, Baile de Mayo 8pm - midnight, Saturday May 1st at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center. santafefiesta.org/
Fiesta Goes Hollywood! Truth or Consequences
The 61st annual Truth or Consequences Fiesta Goes Hollywood April 30th to May 2nd, 2010 events include a Parade, Live Music, a Rodeo, a Junk Boat Race, a Golf Tournament and Family Fun day for more information visit - http://www.torcfiesta.com/
Silver City's 24th Annual Tour of the Gila Returns
April 28-May 2, 2010, The SRAM Tour of the Gila is the biggest and most prestigious cycling event in New Mexico, annually attracting participants to Silver City from all over North America and the world. Visit tourofthegila.com UPDATE: Marking a return to the race Lance Armstrong and Levi Leipheimer, along with Jason McCartney, will take the start on April 28. Read the press release here (pdf) Watch the tour of the Gila live online beginning May 1st 2010 from the NM Sports Authority website HERE!
Spring Wine Festivals in New Mexico
Albuquerque Wine Festival Sat 5/29/10 - Mon 5/31/10 Browse through handcrafted art, listen to upbeat music, and sample New Mexico wines and great summer foods. itsatrip.org
Southern New Mexico Wine Festival Sat 5/29/10 - Mon 5/ 31/10 Southern NM State Fairgrounds - Las Cruces This oldest of our festivals kicks off the summer season in the south. snmwinefestival.com
March 11 - 14 - 45th Annual Rockhound Roundup - Gem & Mineral Show, Deming - The Rockhound Roundup Gem & Mineral Show includes Jewelry, Rock Related Items, Buyers Market, Lapidary Equipment, Displays & Demos, Guided field Trips, Auctions, Fossil Digging for Kids, something for everyone! 575-267-4399 SW New Mexico Fairgrounds (5704)
May 7 - 8 - Smokey Bear Days, Capitan - Smokey Bear DaysStarted in 2004 to celebrate Smokey's 60th birthday, Smokey Bear Days has become a annual 2-day event held the first Friday and Saturday of May. The Smokey Bear Days' mission is to promote the fire prevention message and educate visitors to the Capitan area about the dangers of unwanted, human-caused wildfires. Smokey Bear's first appearance was in a 1944 CFFP poster. The history of Smokey's Fire Prevention campaign and the cub found in the Capitan Mountains has international impact. Come discover the story at Smokey 11:00 AM - 07:00 PM (575)354-2748 Bear Historical Park (5705)
June 17 - 19 - The 2010 Buckaroo Ball, Santa Fe - "The 2010 Buckaroo Ball", lasting 3 days. This weekend of affairs in Santa Fe County, serves to raise money for granting to other non-profit organizations that serve youth at-risk through a combination of evening receptions, a Saturday Night Gala and Auction, a Home and Garden tour in Santa Fe, and a Gallery and Shopping tour. The event takes place in various venues in and around Santa Fe, in partnership with local hotels, restaurants, galleries and stores, and it leverages and promotes Santa Fe's well-known reputation as one of the most desirable and unusual travel spots in the world. The event is highly publicized regionally and nationally, and is open to anybody who wishes to purchase a ticket. The Buckaroo Ball has over 1000 attendees, and draws a significant percentage of clientele from outside of Santa Fe County. (505) 992-3700 (5707)
June 11-13 - Thirsty Ear Festival, Santa Fe - 3:00 PM - 9:00 PM 505-473-5723
