* New Mexico is known as the "Land of Enchantment"
* "Smokey Bear", a cub orphaned by fire in 1950, is buried in Smokey Bear Historical State Park in 1976
* Sante Fe is the highest capital city in the U.S. at 7,000 feet above sea level
* Each October Albuquerque hosts the world's largest international hot air balloon fiesta
* The Rio Grande is New Mexico's longest river and runs the entire length of New Mexico
* White Sands National Monument is a desert,not of sand, but of gleaming white gypsum crystals.
* Hatch, N.M. is known as the "Green Chile capitol of the world"
* New Mexico is one of the four corner states. Bordering at the same point with Colorado, Utah and Arizona.
* The Navajo, the Nation's largest Native American Group, have a reservation that covers 14 million acres.
* New Mexico has far more sheep and cattle than people.
* Since New Mexico's climate is so dry 3/4 of the roads are left unpaved. The roads don't wash away.
* Moon rocks can be foud at the International Space hall of fame that is located in Alamogordo.
I Tens of thousands of bats live in the Carlsbad Caverns.
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