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New Mexico
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New Mexico

New Mexico (mèk´sî-ko´)
Abbr. NM, N.M., N.Mex.
A state of the southwest United States on the Mexican border. It was admitted as the 47th state in 1912. Site of prehistoric cultures that long preceded the Pueblo civilization encountered by the Spanish in the 16th century, the region was governed as a province of Mexico after 1821 and ceded to the United States by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848. The original territory (established 1850) included Arizona and part of Colorado and was enlarged by the Gadsden Purchase of 1853. Sante Fe is the capital and Albuquerque the largest city. Population, 1,521,779.
- New Mex´ican adjective & noun

History
The first known inhabitants of what is now New Mexico were members of the Clovis and Folsom cultures, so named because the first remains of their cultures were found near the towns of Clovis and Folsom. Later the Anasazi culture flourished in the San Juan River Basin in the 1st millennium AD. By AD 1300, thousands of Pueblo people, descendants of the Anasazi, lived in several towns along the Rio Grande. In the 13th century a people call