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New Mexico is located in the southwestern United States. Tourists, attracted not only by the scenic beauty of New Mexico’s deserts and mountains but also by the rich Native American and Spanish cultures that distinguish the state, have become an important part of the state’s economy. The landscape ranges from wide, rose-colored deserts to broken mesas to high, snow-capped peaks. Despite New Mexico's arid image, heavily forested mountains cover a significant portion of the state, especially towards the north. The Sangre de Cristo Mountains, the southernmost part of the Rocky Mountains, run roughly north-south along the east side of the Rio Grande in the rugged, pastoral north. The most important of New Mexico's rivers are the Rio Grande, Pecos, Canadian, and San Juan

New Mexico main manufacturing industries are food products, chemicals, transportation equipment, lumber, electrical machinery, and stone-clay-glass products. More than two-thirds of New Mexico's farm income comes from livestock products, especially sheep. Cotton, pecans, and sorghum are the most important field crops. Corn, peanuts, beans, onions, chilies, and lettuce are also grown. The climate of the state is highly arid and its territory is mostly covered by mountains and desert. A 2006 real estate survey has estimated the population of New Mexico at 1,969,915.

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Albuquerque is located in central New Mexico, on the Río Grande. The city’s sunny weather and low humidity have made it a vacation spot, and its Native American and Spanish colonial heritage give it a unique character. The largest city in New Mexico, Albuquerque is a transportation, trade, and high-technology manufacturing center. A principal employer is Sandia National Laboratories, a government center for nuclear energy, and environmental research and development.

Los Alamos

Jeanette Metzger

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Mountainair

Patsy Gustin

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In the early 1960s, the AMREP Corporation purchased 55,000 acres of land on the outskirts of Albuquerque, originally called Rio Rancho Estates. This was the beginning of Rio Rancho. The magnificent view of the Sandia Mountains, the warm summer days and cool evenings, and the mild winter temperatures are just a few of the enticements to move to Rio Rancho.

Santa Fe

Don Davis

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Taos

Peter Fay

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Tularosa is located in Otero County between Alamogordo and Ruidoso along US Highway 70 near the Lincoln National Forest.

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The greater part of New Mexico’s productive farmland is found along the Río Grande and in the Pecos, San Juan, Canadian, and Gila river valleys, where crops can be irrigated with river water. Some areas, such as that around Deming, are irrigated by pumped wells. The production on the irrigated land accounts for much of New Mexico’s agricultural output by value. Dry farming (farming without irrigation) is practiced in the extreme eastern part of the state and in a few small areas in the mountain valleys.

Ranching is far more important than farming, especially in eastern New Mexico. Livestock sales provide 74 percent of the state’s farm income. The cattle herds were largest in the early 1920s, but the grasslands were greatly overgrazed. Since then the number of cattle has been reduced and efforts have been made to improve grazing practices. At one time the cattle were marketed chiefly in Kansas City, but now many cattle are slaughtered in New Mexico and much of the beef is sent to California. Sheep are grazed in the northeastern plains, in the northern mountains, and in the Navajo areas of the northwest. National forests include grazing land for sheep and cattle. While growing cattle and calves for meat remained steady during the 1990s, the value of dairy products increased markedly, becoming the second most valuable agricultural product. The state also has farms that produce eggs and hogs.

In the late 1990s hay, vegetables, and nursery and greenhouse items were the leading cash crops in New Mexico. Hay is grown mainly in Chaves, Eddy, and San Juan counties, and most of it is fed to livestock on the farms where it is grown rather than sold. The most important vegetables raised are chili peppers and onions; others include potatoes, lettuce, and pinto beans. Corn, cotton, peanuts, grain sorghum, and wheat are the most important field crops—most grown on irrigated farms. Orchard crops are primarily pecans, grown in Doña Ana County, and apples, grown in Rio Arriba and San Juan counties.

Mining is New Mexico’s primary economic activity based on natural resources, and New Mexico ranks among the leading states in mineral production. The most important minerals are natural gas, petroleum, coal, copper, potash, crushed stone, and sand and gravel used in construction.

There are major oil fields in Eddy, Lea, and Chaves counties in the southeast and in McKinley and San Juan counties in the northwest. McKinley and San Juan counties also have major natural-gas fields. In 1997 New Mexico ranked fourth among the states in the production of natural gas and seventh in petroleum production. Coal is produced in the northwest and the northeast. Nearly all of it is used in coal-burning power plants in the Four Corners region in New Mexico and Arizona. The York Canyon Mine near Raton, however, supplies large quantities of coal to states in the upper Midwest.

Almost one-fifth of the annual U.S. output of uranium was once mined in New Mexico. In the late 1990s, however, only a small amount was being produced by processing mine water because of a dramatic decline in demand. Uranium was discovered at Haystack Mountain in 1950. Major sources of uranium were McKinley and Valencia counties and Shiprock, on the Navajo Reservation in San Juan County.

Copper is New Mexico’s most important nonfuel mineral. In 1997 New Mexico ranked third, behind Arizona and Utah, in copper production. The Chino mine, near Santa Rita, is today one of the largest in the world. Other copper operations are situated near Animas, Tyrone, and Bayard. Silver and gold are obtained largely as by-products of copper smelting. Potash, a potassium concentrate used mainly in fertilizer, is the state’s second most important nonfuel mineral. Copper and potash together usually account for four-fifths of the value of New Mexico’s nonfuel mineral production. Much of the nation’s potash is mined near Carlsbad and Hobbs. New Mexico is also the country’s leading producer of perlite, and its second largest producer of pumice and mica.

The leading industries in the state are the manufacturers of electronic equipment, chiefly semiconductors; printers and publishers, mainly newspaper publishers; food processors; manufacturers of instruments, such as missile guidance systems and surgical appliances; makers of transportation equipment, including aircraft engines and parts and motor vehicles; and manufacturers of machinery, led by computer makers. Albuquerque is the state’s chief industrial center.

Almost all of the electricity generated in New Mexico comes from steam-driven power plants burning fossil fuels, mostly coal, and less than one percent comes from hydroelectric power plants. Much of the electricity is produced in the Four Corners area in the northwest and is consumed outside the state. The coal-fired Four Corners Power Plant is one of the largest fossil-fuel steam-driven power plants in the world.

The many national and state recreation areas, beautiful scenery, Spanish colonial heritage, and renowned art galleries draw thousands of visitors to New Mexico every year. Popular events such as the International Hot Air Balloon Festival and the New Mexico State Fair, and sites such as Carlsbad Caverns continually attract visitors from around the world. During the summer, the state’s mountains, rivers, and lakes are havens for outdoor enthusiasts. Winter sports, such as downhill skiing and cross-country skiing are enjoyed by residents and visitors alike.

Much of New Mexico’s industrial activity is concerned with research and development in the fields of nuclear energy, space exploration, and ballistic rocketry. The many government installations in the state include the Air Force Missile Development Center at Holloman Air Force Base, near Alamogordo; Los Alamos National Laboratory, operated by the University of California for the United States Department of Energy; the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories, at Albuquerque; and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) White Sands Test Facility and the United States Army’s White Sands Missile Range, both located in the Tularosa Valley. Other military bases include Kirtland Air Force Base near Albuquerque, and Cannon Air Force Base, near Clovis.

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