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NEW MEXICO

This is the flag of New Mexico, it has a yellow background with a red cross

This is the shield, which has an imperial eagle

New Mexico is a state in southwestern United States

The most important cities are: Las Cruces, Alburquerque

Las Vegas and Clovis

Santa Fe is the capital of New

Mexico

It has got

70.600

habitants

It has a very varied terrain, mountains, deserts and Great plains

GEOGRAPHY

Organ mountains

Sangre de Cristo mountains

Apache forest

Grande river divides the state from north to south

In New Mexico there are many hot springs

CLIMATE

New Mexico's climate is arid, dry and cold in winter. There is little precipitation, snow at higher altitudes, the

summer storms are frequent.

The summer is the rainy season. It’s characterized by clean air and a clear sky

The economic resources of the country are livestock, oil and minerals and to a lesser extent tourism

TOM UDALL

• Is the senator of 2008, it’s democratic.

BILL RICHARDSON

Is the governor. In 2007 announced

his candidacy for president of the United States.

• In the stiff cone pine, blue spruce and pine inhabit sub-alpine great horned rams Maroons, moose, mountain goats, marmots, birds and small rodents.

FAUNA

It has been identified over 6,000 plant species throughout the state, characteristics of plants from desert to alpine vegetation

FLORA

MUSEUMS

The museum on the rattle snake, on the Turquoise Museum, the National Atomic Museum

Museum of Natural History & Science

Ranch of the swallows

Recalls the life of the era of Spanish colonization in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

THE MUSEUM OF TRADITIONAL AGRICULTURE

Recognizes farmers and cowboys in New Mexico.

FORT SELDEN

In this ancient town where General Douglas MacArthur lived during his youth and it was where they stayed in the

Buffalo Soldiers.

Visitors still come to New Mexico to see real cowboys, the Spanish colonizers introduced the so-called Western Way of Life