Capital:
Motto: Crescit Eundo (It Grows As It Goes) New
Mexico State
Seal Ballad: The Land of Enchantment Bird:
(Roadrunner) Colors: Red and Yellow Cookie:
(or biscochito) Fish: Cutthroat Trout Flower: Fossil:Coelophysis Gem: Grass: Blue
Grama Insect: Mammal: Poem: A Nuevo México Song: O Fair New Mexico and Asi es Nuevo Mexico Tree:
Pinus edulis Vegetables: Chile &
(Pinto Beans)
Things to Know
The design on New Mexico's state flag is the Zia Sun Symbol which
originated with the Indians of the Zia Pueblo in ancient times.
One of the world's largest cave systems.
A desert made of gypsum sand.
Major Rivers:
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Famous New Mexicans:
,
(1903-1971)
Noble Peace Prize winner. First person of color to be awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize.
Oliver LaFarge, Pulitzer Prize Winning author
, a.k.a "Billy the Kid" is New Mexico's most
infamous outlaw.
(1791-1863), Apache leader
astronaut
,
Apache chief
(1904-1984), artist
-Author, naturalist, artist, co-founder of the Boy Scouts
, one of the great American artists of the 20th-century
Georgia O'Keeffe was instantly drawn to New Mexico's starkly beautiful landscape from the moment she first saw it in 1917.
The Rattlesnake Museum in Albuquerque, New Mexico is home to the
largest collection of different species of live rattlesnakes in the world!
Explore the rugged beauty of New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon.
Well-preserved group of adobe houses is thought to date from before 1400.
Southwest Chaco Canyon Pueblo Culture Pictures.
History and Information.
Things to Do-Other Sites
Read about the New Mexico State Quater and print
out the color page.
The history of the black bear cub that survived a fire in New Mexico
and became the living symbol of Smokey Bear.
