Portal:New Mexico

The New Mexico Portal

New Mexico is a landlocked state in the Southwestern region of the United States. It is one of the Mountain States of the southern Rocky Mountains, sharing the Four Corners region with Utah, Colorado, and Arizona. It also borders the state of Texas to the east and southeast, Oklahoma to the northeast, and shares an international border with the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Sonora to the south. New Mexico's largest city is Albuquerque, and its state capital is Santa Fe, the oldest state capital in the U.S.—founded in 1610 as the government seat of Nuevo México in New Spain—and the highest in elevation, at 6,998 feet (2,133 m).

New Mexico is the fifth-largest of the fifty states by area, but with just over 2.1 million residents, ranks 36th in population and 45th in population density. Its climate and geography are highly varied, ranging from forested mountains to sparse deserts; the northern and eastern regions exhibit a colder alpine climate, while the west and south are warmer and more arid. The Rio Grande and its fertile valley runs north-to-south, creating a riparian biome through the center of the state that supports a bosque habitat and distinct Albuquerque Basin climate. One-third of New Mexico's land is federally owned, including many protected wilderness areas, 15 national parks and monuments, and three UNESCO World Heritage Sites wholly contained within the state—the most of any U.S. state.

New Mexico's economy is highly diversified; major sectors include mining, oil and gas, aerospace, media, and film. Its total real gross domestic product (GDP) in 2023 was over $105 billion, with a GDP per capita of $49,879. New Mexico often ranks low in wealth, healthcare, and education, but has some of the highest concentrations of scientists, engineers, along with other highly skilled workers, and one of the most educated (albeit very small) counties in the U.S.: Los Alamos County. New Mexico has a significant federal presence, including U.S. military installations such as White Sands Missile Range and Kirtland Air Force Base, and Department of Energy research centers such as the Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratories. The state hosted several key facilities of the Manhattan Project, which developed the world's first atomic bomb, and was the site of the first nuclear test, Trinity. (Full article...)

Refresh with new selections below (purge)

Recognized content - show another

Entries here consist of Good and Featured articles, which meet a core set of high editorial standards.

Edward Condon at NIST (c. 1945-1951)

Edward Uhler Condon (March 2, 1902 – March 26, 1974) was an American nuclear physicist, a pioneer in quantum mechanics, and a participant during World War II in the development of radar and, very briefly, of nuclear weapons as part of the Manhattan Project. The Franck–Condon principle and the Slater–Condon rules are co-named after him.

He was the fourth director of the National Bureau of Standards (NIST) from 1945 to 1951. In 1946, Condon was president of the American Physical Society, and in 1953 was president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. (Full article...)

List of recognized articles

More recognized content

Selected article - show another

U.S. Route 491 (US 491) is a north–south U.S. Highway serving the Four Corners region of the United States. It was created in 2003 as a renumbering of U.S. Route 666 (US 666). With the US 666 designation, the road was nicknamed the "Devil's Highway" because of the significance of the number 666 to many Christian denominations as the Number of the Beast. This Satanic connotation, combined with a high fatality rate along the New Mexico portion, convinced some people the highway was cursed. The problem was compounded by persistent sign theft. These factors led to two efforts to renumber the highway, first by officials in Arizona, then by those in New Mexico. There have been safety improvement projects since the renumbering, and fatality rates have subsequently decreased.

The highway, now a spur route of US 91 via its connection to US 191, runs through New Mexico, Colorado and Utah, as well as the tribal nations of the Navajo Nation and Ute Mountain Ute Tribe. The highway passes by two mountains considered sacred by Native Americans: Ute Mountain and an extinct volcanic core named Shiprock. Other features along the route include Mesa Verde National Park and Dove Creek, Colorado, the self-proclaimed pinto-bean capital of the world. (Full article...)

List of selected articles

General images - load new batch

The following are images from various New Mexico-related articles on Wikipedia.

Image 1President William Howard Taft at his desk in the Oval Office, signing the statehood bill for New Mexico on January 6, 1912. (from History of New Mexico)
Image 2Interior of the Crosby Theater at the Santa Fe Opera, viewed from the mezzanine (from Culture of New Mexico)
Image 3New Mexican linguist and folklorist Rubén Cobos published the first dictionary of New Mexican Spanish, A Dictionary of New Mexico and Southern Colorado Spanish. (from Culture of New Mexico)
Image 4Province of New Mexico when it belonged to Mexico in 1824 (from History of New Mexico)
Image 5Symbols of the Southwest: a string of dried chile pepper pods (a ristra) and a bleached white cow's skull hang in a market near Santa Fe. (from Culture of New Mexico)
Image 6Jean Nicolas Du Tralage and Vincenzo Coronelli's 1687 map of New Mexico (from History of New Mexico)
Image 7Bronze statue of Archbishop Lamy in front of St. Francis Cathedral (from History of New Mexico)
Image 8Serving food in Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940 (from History of New Mexico)
Image 9The flag of New Mexico, which is among the most recognizable in the U.S., reflects the state's eclectic origins, featuring the ancient sun symbol of the Zia, a Puebloan tribe, with the scarlet and gold coloration of the Spanish flag. (from Culture of New Mexico)
Image 10Luminarias in the old mission church, Jemez State Monument (from Culture of New Mexico)
Image 11The Santa Ana Star Center (from Culture of New Mexico)
Image 12José Rafael Aragón, Crucifix, ca. 1795–1862, Brooklyn Museum, From about 1750, Catholic churches in Spanish New Mexico were increasingly decorated with the work of native craftspeople rather than with paintings, sculpture, and furniture imported from Europe. This small santo (religious image) is typical of the locally produced objects. It is made of indigenous pine and painted with water-based pigments used by native artisans. (from History of New Mexico)
Image 13Proposals for Texas northwestern boundary (from History of New Mexico)
Image 14Comancheria and the New Mexico settlements prior to 1850. (from History of New Mexico)
Image 15New Mexico proposed boundary before Compromise of 1850 (from History of New Mexico)
Image 16Gen. Kearny's annexation of New Mexico, August 15, 1846 (from History of New Mexico)
Image 17Tierra O Muerte – Land or Death. Legal issues about ownership of millions of acres in land grants date from the Mexican war to the present. (from History of New Mexico)
Image 181867 map (from History of New Mexico)

Did you know - load new batch

... that journalism students at New Mexico State University were willing to work for free to save their newscast on the school's TV station?

Topics

Largest cities

See List of municipalities in New Mexico for a full list.

New articles

This list was generated from these rules. Questions and feedback are always welcome! The search is being run daily with the most recent ~14 days of results. Note: Some articles may not be relevant to this project.

Rules | Match log | Results page (for watching) | Deleted articles| Last updated: 2026-05-30 19:58 (UTC)

Note: The list display can now be customized by each user. See List display personalization for details.