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CLOSEST FREEWAYS: I-25 & U 285
APPROXIMATE POPULATION: 67,879
This is a city touched by the personalities of the Spanish
and Native American people who first called it home. The mark
they left almost four hundred years ago is still amazingly strong.
Viewing its distinctive architecture, sampling the spicy delights
of its restaurants, or shopping in the shadows of the Plaza de
Santa Fe, you can almost feel them with you.
Who were these first people? When Francisco Vazquez de Coronado
arrived here in 1540, he was met by the Tewa tribe. Two hundred
and sixty-seven years later, in 1807, Zebulon M. Pike traveled
this area for the United States when it was still under Spanish
control. Just a few years later, in 1821, it was transferred
to Mexican control and then ceded to the United States as part
of the New Mexico territory in 1848. Its name, "Santa Fe"
means "Holy Faith" in Spanish.
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CLOSEST FREEWAYS: I-25 & U 285 APPROXIMATE POPULATION: 67,879 This is a city touched by the personalities of the Spanish and Native American people who first called it home. The mark they left almost four hundred years ago is still amazingly strong. Viewing its distinctive architecture, sampling the spicy delights of its restaurants, or shopping in the shadows of the Plaza de Santa Fe, you can almost feel them with you. Who were these first people? When Francisco Vazquez de Coronado
arrived here in 1540, he was met by the Tewa tribe. Two hundred
and sixty-seven years later, in 1807, Zebulon M. Pike traveled
this area for the United States when it was still under Spanish
control. Just a few years later, in 1821, it was transferred
to Mexican control and then ceded to the United States as part
of the New Mexico territory in 1848. Its name, "Santa Fe"
means "Holy Faith" in Spanish. |