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New Mexican Spanish refers to the Spanish varieties spoken throughout the state of New Mexico and in the southern portion of Colorado; the label is applied to southern Colorado due to it having historically been part of New Mexico until statehood in 1876, and because most Spanish-speaking Coloradoans in the area trace their ancestry to Spanish-speaking New Mexican settlers.
The town was known as "Joseph" from 1887 to 1898 and 1901 to 1906. Since 1906 it has been known as "Aragon", named for an old Spanish family who still lives in the area. Near Aragon, on the north side of Tularosa Canyon, a cave was occupied from 400 B.C. to A.D. 1100, containing pits and later masonry rooms. [8]
The following is a list of cities, towns and census-designated places in New Mexico, USA, in which a majority of the population was Hispanic or Latino, according to data from the 2000 census. Places with between 25,000 and 100,000 people
The first Spanish settlers emigrated to New Mexico on July 11, 1598, when the explorer Don Juan de Oñate came north from Mexico City to New Mexico with 500 Spanish settlers and soldiers and a livestock of 7,000 animals.
Oct. 31—Those who speak it know: New Mexican Spanish is as distinctive as the flavor of Hatch chiles, as the color of the state's sunsets. But when English came to dominate the public-school ...
Despite this, western Spanish New Mexico was eventually annexed by Texas. The U.S. won the Mexican–American War (1846–1848) and in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848), Mexico ceded to the U.S. the northwestern Mexico (present-day southwestern USA), including most of present-day New Mexico. On June 8, 1854 the United States bought 29,670 ...
Spanish-language mass media in New Mexico (2 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Spanish-American culture in New Mexico" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
The rancher who found the crash first came to Corona to report it to a few residents, before going to Roswell to tell officials there. In 2004, Corona was the site of a 5,280 acres (21.4 km 2) forest fire, begun when an unknown arsonist lit a pile of pine needles. [5] [6]