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Educational Site Attractions In New Mexico

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New Mexico is a state in the Southwestern Region of the United States of America. It is one of the Mountain States and shares the Four Corners region with Utah, Colorado, and Arizona; its other neighboring states are Oklahoma to the northeast, Texas to the east-southeast, and the Mexican states of Chihuahua to the south and Sonora to the southwest. With a population of approximately two million, New Mexico is the 36th most populous state. With a total area of 121,590 sq mi , it is the fifth-largest and sixth least densely populated of the fifty states. Its capital and cultural center is Santa Fe, while its largest city is Albuquerque. Due to its geogra...
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Educational Site Attractions In New Mexico

  • 1. Ghost Ranch Abiquiu
    Ghost Ranch is a 21,000-acre retreat and education center located close to the village of Abiquiú in Rio Arriba County in north central New Mexico, United States. It was the home and studio of Georgia O'Keeffe, as well as the subject of many of her paintings. The conference center and lodgings at Ghost Ranch are run by the Presbyterian Church but open to the general public. Ghost Ranch is also known for a remarkable concentration of fossils, most notably that of the theropod dinosaur Coelophysis, of which it has been estimated that nearly a thousand individuals have been preserved in a quarry at Ghost Ranch.
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  • 2. New Mexico State University Las Cruces
    Las Cruces is the seat of Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States. As of the 2010 census the population was 97,618, and in 2015 the estimated population was 101,643, making it the second largest city in the state, after Albuquerque. Las Cruces is the largest city in both Doña Ana County and southern New Mexico. The Las Cruces metropolitan area had an estimated population of 213,676 in 2014. It is the principal city of a metropolitan statistical area which encompasses all of Doña Ana County and is part of the larger El Paso–Las Cruces combined statistical area. Las Cruces is the economic and geographic center of the Mesilla Valley, the agricultural region on the floodplain of the Rio Grande which extends from Hatch to the west side of El Paso, Texas. Las Cruces is the home of New Me...
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  • 3. Dar al Islam Abiquiu
    Dar al-Islam is a Muslim organization based in Abiquiú, New Mexico, USA. It was the first planned Islamic community in the United States. It was originally co-founded in 1979 by Nooruddeen Durkee, an American convert to Islam, Sahl Kabbani, a Saudi businessman and Abdullah Naseef, the former secretary-general of the World Muslim League. Kabbani reportedly contributed $125,000 to the non-profit Lama Foundation that was formed to create the community, while the bulk of the start up funds were said to have come from the Riyadh Ladies’ Benevolent Association of Saudi Arabia, the late King Khalid of Saudi Arabia, and two of his daughters.The foundation purchased its first 1,000-acre site from Alva Simpson, a well-established rancher along the Chama, for $1,372,000. The land included the 400-...
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  • 5. Santa Fe University of Art and Design Santa Fe
    The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway , often referred to as the Santa Fe or AT&SF, was one of the larger railroads in the United States. Chartered in February 1859, the railroad reached the Kansas-Colorado border in 1873 and Pueblo, Colorado, in 1876. To create a demand for its services, the railroad set up real estate offices and sold farm land from the land grants that it was awarded by Congress. Despite the name, its main line never served Santa Fe, New Mexico, as the terrain was too difficult; the town ultimately was reached by a branch line from Lamy. The Santa Fe was a pioneer in intermodal freight transport, an enterprise that included a tugboat fleet and an airline . Its bus line extended passenger transportation to areas not accessible by rail, and ferryboats on the San Franc...
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