The gorgeous Santa Fe
Santa Fe is a city located in Santa Fe County in the U.S. state of New Mexico. In the 2010 Census had a population of 67,947 inhabitants and a population density of 569.77 persons per km ². Santa Fe is the capital of New Mexico in the southwestern United States. Located in central upstate, about 90 miles from Albuquerque, the largest city in New Mexico, Mission San Miguel (about 1610) is possibly the oldest church in the United States of America. Get Santa Fe bus charters to travel around.
Santa Fe is located at coordinates 35 ° 39’58 “N 105 ° 58’25″ W. According to the Census Bureau of the United States, Santa Fe has a total area of 119.25 km ² of which 119.08 km ² correspond to the mainland (0.14%) 0.17 km ² is water. Santa Fe became the capital of New Mexico, a province of New Spain established in 1598 by Spanish explorer Francisco Vazquez de Coronado. The first inauguration was in place to further grow the city from 1607 through the work of Spanish colonist Juan Martinez de Montoya.
The city was formally founded in 1610 by Don Pedro de Peralta, the third governor of New Mexico, was given the name La Villa Real de la Santa Fe de San Francisco de Asis. It is the oldest among all the capital cities of the United States and the second oldest among all the cities still inhabited the colonial era (after St. Augustine (Florida), Florida, founded in 1565). Santa Fe hosted Spanish province until the beginning of the War of Independence from Mexico in 1810. In 1824 it formalized its status as capital of the Mexican territory of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
In 1841, a U.S. military group left Austin, Texas, to take the route of Santa Fe group was repelled by the Mexican navy. In 1846 the U.S. declared war on Mexico and General Stephen Kearny led a troop of about 1700 troops to occupy the city and throughout New Mexico. In 1848 the U.S. declared officially have won New Mexico by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
In the street of San Francisco, is the Cathedral of St. Francis of Assisi. Within which is the Loretto Chapel, built between 1873 and 1878. It has a miraculous staircase staircase known as Santa Fe. It is a major tourist center with outstanding cultural activities in the field of visual arts and music, is home to the Santa Fe Opera conducted by a renowned opera festival every summer. It was the home of painter Georgia O’Keefe, who immortalized the landscape and resided among the nearby town of Taos and this where the Georgia O’Keefe Museum.
According to the census there were 67,947 people residing 2010.4 in Santa Fe The population density was 569.77 inhabitants / km ². Of the 67,947 residents, Santa Fe was composed of 78.9% White, 1.01% were African American, 2.09% were Native Americans, the 1.44% were Asian, 0.07% were Pacific Islanders, the 12.76% were of other races and 3.73% from two or more races. Of the total population 48.7% were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
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