Day 9 (D-52) Santa Fe

Day 9 Santa Fe, New Mexico


NEW MEXICO: 


A territory from 1850-1912, New Mexico was admitted as the 47th state in January of 1912.
It is the 5th largest state but has a population of about 2,100,000.  Out of all the 50 states, it ranks 36th in population, but 45th in density (6.6/km2).

Click here for a google map: https://goo.gl/maps/dedWXSKQcjv


SANTA FE:

A lot of superlatives-->  highest, oldest..longest name!

1) At 7,000 ft above sea level (2194m), Santa Fe is the United States' highest capital city.

2)  Santa Fe is the oldest state capital in the United States, founded in 1608 by New Mexico's third Spanish governor, Don Pedro de Peralta.  It was made the capital of the territory in 1610.  

3)  Santa Fe is Spanish, meaning Holy Faith.  Santa Fe's full name is La Villa Real de la Santa Fé de San Francisco de Asis -->  The Royal Town of the Holy Faith of Saint Francis of Assisi.  (Say that 10 times fast.😆)

4) Santa Fe (1608) is the third oldest surviving city founded by European colonists in the contiguous 48 U.S. states, after Pensacola (1559) and Saint Augustine (1565) both in Florida.

5) Today a museum, The Palace of Governors on the Santa Fe Plaza is the oldest government building in the United States.


More tomorrow.
My best,
Jane
--contiguous states = the 48 states that touch one another, without another country or a body of water coming between them. So this excludes Alaska and Hawaii.

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