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Santa Fe (/ ˌ s æ n t ə ˈ f eɪ, ˈ s æ n t ə f eɪ / SAN-tə FAY, - fay; Spanish:) is the capital of the U.S. state of New Mexico, and the county seat of Santa Fe County.With over 89,000 residents, [5] Santa Fe is the fourth-most populous city in the state, [6] and part of the Albuquerque–Santa Fe–Los Alamos combined statistical area, which had a population of 1,162,523 in 2020.
The Santa Fe Institute (SFI) is an independent, nonprofit theoretical research institute located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States and dedicated to the multidisciplinary study of the fundamental principles of complex adaptive systems, including physical, computational, biological, and social systems.
Sandía means watermelon in Spanish, [2] and is popularly believed to be a reference to the reddish color of the mountains at sunset. [3] Also, when viewed from the west, the profile of the mountains is a long ridge, with a thin zone of green conifers near the top, suggesting the "rind" of the watermelon.
Oct. 1—Artificial intelligence is said to be here to stay — and public school officials in Santa Fe believe it's time for teachers to embrace it. The Santa Fe school board unveiled a plan last ...
The Santa Fe Railroad reached New Mexico in 1878, with the first locomotive crossing Raton Pass that December. It reached Lamy, New Mexico, 16 miles (26 km) from Santa Fe in 1879 and Santa Fe itself in 1880, and Deming in 1881, thereby replacing the storied Santa Fe Trail as a way to ship cattle to market. The new town of Albuquerque, platted ...
The first record of fossils in New Mexico was written by Santa Fe Trader Josiah Gregg, who described local petrified wood in his 1846 book Commerce of the Prairies. The next mention comes from J. W. Abert , who traveled through the area between 1846 and 1847.
The Santa Fe Group is a group of geologic formations in New Mexico and Colorado. It contains fossils characteristic of the Oligocene through Pleistocene epochs . The group consists of basin -filling sedimentary and volcanic rocks of the Rio Grande rift , and contains important regional aquifers .
Geoffrey Brian West (born 15 December 1940) [1] is a British theoretical physicist and former president and distinguished professor of the Santa Fe Institute.He is one of the leading scientists working on a scientific model of cities.