About Albuquerque, N.M.

Visit New Mexico!

• The Journal’s Staff Contact Page
• The Journal’s N.M. Visitor’s Guide
• The Land of Enchantment: 360-degree photos, city tourist destinations
• Take a slide-show tour of New Mexico here
• N.M. Department of Tourism
• The state’s maps and lists of cities and pueblos

Free Wi-Fi Hotspots Around ABQ & N.M.

• Free public wireless Internet hotspots provided by the City of Albuquerque.
• Free business-provided Wi-Fi Internet hotspots around ABQ & N.M.

About New Mexico

• State of New Mexico Home Page
• New Mexico at the Millennium: who we are, why we came, looking forward. An Albuquerque Journal special section
• Catalog of state information: State of N.M. Blue Book
• Office of the Governor
• New Mexico State Legislature
• Albuquerque Journal coverage of the state Legislature
• Albuquerque Journal coverage of city and state elections
• N.M. State University’s Index of N.M. Links
• The Journal’s Restaurant reviews
• N.M. media outlets
• State of N.M. Economic Development Department
• Population: approximately 1,740,000
• Area code: 505
• New Mexico joined the United States in 1912 (the 47th state)

About Albuquerque

• City of Albuquerque Home Page
• Lots of useful telephone numbers
• City of Albuquerque’s “Albuquerque A-Z”
• Convention and Visitors Bureau Home Page
• City of Albuquerque’s Interactive Maps (find addresses, schools, parks, zoning . . .)
• Activities for Kids
• Mayor’s Office
• City Council
• World-class musicians at Journal Pavilion
• ABQ Close-Up : Albuquerque is unlike any other city. That’s often why people choose to live there. “ABQ Close-Up” periodically explores the singularity of the city and, in doing so, attempts to show what makes its people and places distinctive.

Ulta Brief History of N.M.

See New Mexico at the Millennium: who we are, why we came, looking forward. An Albuquerque Journal special section

By 400 AD, according to the state government’s Blue Book, most of the population in western New Mexico had begun to settle into semipermanent or permanent riverside villages, while those in the eastern areas of what is now New Mexico remained nomadic.Ý

Of the people in the western regions, those in the southwestern part of the state are known as Mogollon while those in the northwest are known as Anasazi.ÝThe period between 1050 and 1300 AD is referred to as the Golden Age of the Classic Pueblo Period. For reasons still not understood, between about 1200 and 1400 AD many areas of New Mexico and the Southwest, including the thriving Chaco Canyon, were abandoned.ÝDrought may have been a contributing factor, and these people may have been assimilated into the Acoma and Zuni communities in the Rio Grande region.

In 1598, the Spanish founded a colony at the Tewa village of Ohkay, after which they were expelled only briefly by the Pueblo Revolt in 1680. New Mexico became part of the Mexican Republic in 1821, and a territory of the United States in 1850. It gained statehood in 1912.

N.M.’s Congressional Delgation

• Delegates’ contact information
• U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman
• U.S. Rep. Tom Udall
• U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Lujan
• U.S. Rep. Harry Teague
• U.S. Rep. Martin Heinrich

Counties

• County information from the N.M. Association of Counties
• Map of counties
  from the State of N.M. Web site
• Bernalillo
• Catron
• Chaves
• Cibola
• Colfax
• Curry
• Doña Ana
• Eddy
• Grant
• Hidalgo
• Lea
• Lincoln
• Los Alamos
• Luna
• Mora
• Otero
• Rio Arriba
• Roosevelt
• San Juan
• Sandoval
• Santa Fe
• Sierra
• Socorro
• Taos
• Torrance
• Valencia

Courts

• Bernalillo Metro Court
• N.M. 1st Judicial District Court (Santa Fe, Rio Arriba and Los Alamos counties)
• N.M. 2nd Judicial District Court
• N.M. 5th Judicial District Court (Chaves, Eddy and Lea Counties)
• N.M. Supreme Court Law Library
• U.S. Federal Judiciary
• U.S. Courts – District of N.M.
• The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver