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The history of Albuquerque, New Mexico dates back up to 12,000 years, beginning with the presence of Paleo-Indian hunter-gatherers in the region. Gradually, these nomadic people adopted a more settled, agricultural lifestyle and began to build multi-story stone or adobe dwellings now known as pueblos by 750 CE.
Located in Downtown Albuquerque are historic theaters such as the KiMo Theater, which is located across the street from the New Mexico Holocaust & Intolerance Museum, and the Albuquerque Little Theater. Near the Civic Plaza is the Al Hurricane Pavilion and Albuquerque Convention Center with its Kiva Auditorium.
Albuquerque Municipal Airport renamed to Albuquerque Sunport; 1965 New terminal opens at the Albuquerque Sunport. Coronado Center shopping mall in business. Albuquerque Press Club founded. 1967 – Albuquerque Museum of Art and History established. 1970 – Anti-war protest. [32] 1972 Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta begins. [28]
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The park is located in northwestern New Mexico, between Albuquerque and Farmington, in a remote canyon cut by the Chaco Wash. Containing the most sweeping collection of ancient ruins north of Mexico, the park preserves one of the most important pre-Columbian cultural and historical areas in the United States. [2]
Bernalillo County (/ ˌ b ɜːr n ə ˈ l iː j oʊ /; Spanish: Condado de Bernalillo) is the most populous county in the U.S. state of New Mexico. [1] As of the 2020 census, the population was 676,444. [2] The county seat, Albuquerque, [3] is the most populous city in New Mexico.
New Mexico: A History of Four Centuries (1962), standard survey; Bullis, Don, New Mexico: A Biographical Dictionary, 1540–1980, 2 vol, (Los Ranchos de Albuquerque: Rio Grande, 2008) 393 pp. ISBN 978-1-890689-17-9; Chavez, Thomas E. An Illustrated History of New Mexico, 267 pages, University of New Mexico Press 2002, ISBN 0-8263-3051-7
The town of Albuquerque (modern Albuquerque, New Mexico) was founded in 1706. Other Mexican towns in the region included Paso del Norte (modern Ciudad Juárez ), founded in 1667; Santiago de la Monclova in 1689; Panzacola, Tejas in 1681; and San Francisco de Cuéllar (modern city of Chihuahua ) in 1709.