Rendered image of New Mexico State Capitol in Santa Fe. The “Roundhouse” is the only round state capitol in the United States.
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About New Mexico
New Mexico is a landlocked state in the Mountain Division of the southwestern United States. It borders (clockwise) Colorado to the north, Oklahoma and Texas to the east, the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Sonora in the south, and Arizona in the west.
Some History
Native Americans inhabited the territory of what is now New Mexico for thousands of years. Clovis, Folsom, Cochise, Anasazi, and Pueblo Indian societies successive called the land their home.
For more than two centuries, Santa Fe de Nuevo México was a province of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, the Spanish possessions in Central and North America. It became a territory of Mexico that gained independence from Spain in 1821.
In 1846 United States forces invaded and occupied New Mexico. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the war between the United States and Mexico in 1848. The treaty significantly expanded US territory. The amount of land gained by the United States increased further by the Gadsden Purchase of 1853-54, which added parts of present-day southern Arizona and southwest New Mexico to the United States. On 6 January 1912, New Mexico finally became the 47th state of the United States.
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Covenant Document Welcoming the King of Glory into New Mexico