Santa Fe, New Mexico For other places with similar names, see Santa Fe.
City of Santa Fe Santa Fe's Downtown Area Santa Fe's Downtown Area Flag of City of Santa Fe Flag Official seal of City of Santa Fe Location in Santa Fe County, New Mexico Location in Santa Fe County, New Mexico City of Santa Fe is positioned in the US City of Santa Fe - City of Santa Fe County Santa Fe County Metro 144,170 (Santa Fe MSA) Santa Fe (/ s nt fe /; Tewa: Ogha Po'oge, Navajo: Yooto) is the capital of the state of New Mexico.
It is the fourth-largest town/city in the state and is the seat of Santa Fe County.
The town/city of Santa Fe, established by Spanish colonists in 1610, is known as the earliest state capital town/city in the United States and the earliest town/city in New Mexico.
Santa Fe (meaning "holy faith" in Spanish) had a populace of 69,204 in 2012.
It is the principal town/city of a Metropolitan Travel Destination which encompasses all of Santa Fe County and is part of the larger Albuquerque Santa Fe Las Vegas combined statistical area.
The city's full name as established remains La Villa Real de la Santa Fe de San Francisco de Asis ("The Royal City of the Holy Faith of Saint Francis of Assisi"). 3 Santa Fe style and "The City Different" Main article: Santa Fe de Nuevo Mexico The region of Santa Fe was originally occupied by indigenous Tanoan citizens s, who lived in various Pueblo villages along the Rio Grande.
One of the earliest known settlements in what today is downtown Santa Fe came sometime after 900.
A group of native Tewa assembled a cluster of homes that centered around the site of today's Plaza and spread for half a mile to the south and west; the village was called Ogapoge in Tewa The Tanoans and other Pueblo citizens s settled along the Santa Fe River for its water and transportation.
By the 20th century the Santa Fe River was a cyclic waterway. As of 2007, the river was recognized as the most endangered river in the United States, as stated to the conservation group American Rivers. Don Juan de Onate led the first European accomplishment to colonize the region in 1598, establishing Santa Fe de Nuevo Mexico as a province of New Spain.
Under Juan de Onate and his son, the capital of the province was the settlement of San Juan de los Caballeros north of Santa Fe near undivided Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo.
New Mexico's second Spanish governor, Don Pedro de Peralta, however, established a new town/city at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in 1607, which he called La Villa Real de la Santa Fe de San Francisco de Asis, the Royal Town of the Holy Faith of Saint Francis of Assisi.
Santa Fe remained Spain's provincial seat until the outbreak of the Mexican War of Independence in 1810.
The city's status as the capital of the Mexican territory of Santa Fe de Nuevo Mexico was formalized in the 1824 Constitution after Mexico accomplished independence from Spain.
When the Republic of Texas seceded from Mexico in 1836, it claimed Santa Fe as part of the portion of Texas along the Rio Grande.
In 1841, a small military and trading expedition set out from Austin, intending to take control of the Santa Fe Trail.
Known as the Texan Santa Fe Expedition, the force was poorly prepared and was easily captured by the Mexican army.
Kearny led the chief body of his Army of the West of some 1,700 soldiers into Santa Fe to claim it and the whole New Mexico Territory for the United States.
Colonel Alexander William Doniphan, under the command of Kearny, recovered ammunition from Santa Fe labeled "Spain 1776." I can hardly imagine how Santa Fe is supported.
He assembled the Santa Fe Saint Francis Cathedral and shaped Catholicism in the region until his death in 1888. As part of the New Mexico Campaign of the Civil War, General Henry Sibley occupied the city, flying the Confederate flag over Santa Fe for a several days in March 1862.
The Santa Fe National Cemetery was created by the federal government after the war in 1870 to inter the Union soldiers who died fighting there.
On October 21, 1887, Anton Docher, "The Padre of Isleta", went to New Mexico where he was ordained as a priest in the St Francis Cathedral of Santa Fe by Bishop Jean-Baptiste Salpointe.
As barns s were extended into the West, Santa Fe was originally envisioned as an meaningful stop on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
But as the tracks were constructed into New Mexico, the civil engineers decided that it was more practical to go through Lamy, a town in Santa Fe County to the south of Santa Fe.
A branch line was instead of from Lamy to Santa Fe in 1880. The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad extended the narrow gauge Chili Line from the close-by city of Espanola to Santa Fe in 1886. In the early 20th century, Santa Fe became a base for various writers and artists.
They contributed to the beginning of the annual Santa Fe Indian Market.
In 1912, New Mexico was admitted as the United States of America's 47th state, with Santa Fe as its capital.
After the mainline of the barns bypassed Santa Fe, it lost population.
The town/city sponsored architectural this is the restoration projects and erected new buildings as stated to traditional techniques and styles, thus creating the Santa Fe Style.
Hewett, founder and first director of the School of American Research and the Museum of New Mexico in Santa Fe, was a dominant promoter.
He began the Santa Fe Fiesta in 1919 and the Southwest Indian Fair in 1922 (now known as the Indian Market).
The writers and artists formed the Old Santa Fe Association and defeated the plan. Beginning in June 1942, the Department of Justice arrested 826 Japanese-American men after the attack on Pearl Harbor; they held them near Santa Fe, in a former Civilian Conservation Corps site that had been acquired and period for the purpose.
Security at Santa Fe was similar to a military prison, with twelve-foot barbed wire fences, guard towers equipped with searchlights, and guards carrying rifles, side arms and tear gas. By September, the internees had been transferred to other facilities 523 to War Relocation Authority concentration camps in the interior of the West, and 302 to Army internment camps.
The Santa Fe site was used next to hold German and Italian nationals, who were considered enemy aliens after the outbreak of war. In February 1943, these civilian detainees were transferred to DOJ custody.
February 2003 astronaut photography of Santa Fe, New Mexico taken from the International Space Station (ISS) Santa Fe is positioned at 7,199 feet (2,194 m) above sea level, making it the highest state capital in the United States. Climate data for Santa Fe, New Mexico (1981 2010 normals), altitude 6,756 ft (2,059.2 m) Sangre de Cristo Mountains to the East of Santa Fe: a winter sunset after a snow flurry Santa Fe style and "The City Different" Santa Fe is now one of the most interesting art centers in the world and you, O Dude of the East, are privileged to behold the most sophisticated group in the nation gamboling freely.
Be sure as you stroll along looking for the quaint and picturesque that you are supplying your share of those very qualities to Santa Fe, the City Incongruous.
However, "in the rush to pueblofy" Santa Fe, the town/city lost a great deal of its architectural history and eclecticism.
In a September 2003 report by Angelou Economics, it was determined that Santa Fe should focus their economic evolution efforts in the following seven industries: Arts and Culture, Design, Hospitality, Conservation Technologies, Software Development, Publishing and New Media, and Outdoor Gear and Apparel.
Three secondary targeted industries for Santa Fe to focus evolution in are community care, retiree services, and food & beverage.
These signs were; a lack of company range which tied the town/city too closely to fluctuations in tourism and the government sector; the beginnings of urban sprawl, as a result of Santa Fe County burgeoning faster than the city, meaning citizens will move farther outside the town/city to find territory and lower costs for housing; and an aging populace coupled with a quickly shrinking populace of individuals under 45 years old, making Santa Fe less attractive to company recruits.
In 2005/2006, a consultant group from Portland, Oregon, prepared a "Santa Fe Downtown Vision Plan" to examine the long-range needs for the "downtown" area, roughly bounded by the Paseo de Peralta on the north, south and east sides and by Guadalupe Street on the west.
Santa Fe City officials The town/city of Santa Fe is a charter city. It is governed by a mayor-council system.
It also contains the major United States Postal Service postal service in the city. Other postal services in the Santa Fe town/city limits include Coronado, De Vargas Mall, and Santa Fe Place Mall. The U.S.
The Inn at Loretto, a Pueblo Revival style building near the Plaza in Santa Fe The town/city is well known as a center for arts that reflect the multicultural character of the city; it has been designated as a UNESCO Creative City in Design, Crafts and Folk Art. Each Wednesday the alternative weekly newspaper, The Santa Fe Reporter, prints knowledge on the arts and culture of Santa Fe; and each Friday, the daily Santa Fe New Mexican prints Pasatiempo, its long-running calendar and commentary on arts and affairs.
One of the best known New Mexico based artists was Georgia O'Keeffe, who lived for a time in Santa Fe, but primarily in Abiquiu, a small village about 50 mi (80 km) away.
Santa Fe also contains a lively intact art scene, with Meow Wolf as its chief art collective.
Notable sculptors connected with Santa Fe include John Connell, Luis Jimenez, Rebecca Tobey and Allan Houser.
Performance Santa Fe, formerly the Santa Fe Concert Association, is the earliest presenting organization in Santa Fe.
Founded in 1937, Performance Santa Fe brings jubilated and legendary musicians as well as some of the world's greatest dancers and actors to the town/city from August through May. The Santa Fe Opera's productions take place between late June and late August each year.
The town/city also hosts the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival which is held at about the same time, mostly in the St.
Santa Fe has its own experienced ballet company, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, which performs in both metros/cities and tours nationally and internationally.
Santa Fe is also home to internationally acclaimed Flamenco dancer's Maria Benitez Institute for Spanish Arts which offers programs and performance in Flamenco, Spanish Guitar and similar arts year round.
Santa Fe has many exhibitions positioned near the downtown Plaza: Site Santa Fe A intact art space.
Santa Fe Children's Museum a children's exhibition The Santa Fe Roadrunners were a North American Hockey League team, but moved to Kansas to turn into the Topeka Roadrunners.
Santa Fe's rodeo, the Rodeo De Santa Fe, is held annually the last week of June. In May 2012 Santa Fe became the home of the Santa Fe Fuego of the Pecos League of Professional Baseball Clubs.
Santa Fe has had an association with science and technology since 1943 when the town served as the gateway to Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), a 45-minute drive from the city.
In 1984, the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) was established to research complex systems in the physical, biological, economic, and political sciences.
Due to the existence of Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories and the Santa Fe Institute, and because of its attractiveness for visitors and an established tourist industry, Santa Fe routinely serves as a host to a range of scientific meetings, summer schools, and enhance lectures, such as International q-bio Conference on Cellular Information Processing, Santa Fe Institute's Complex Systems Summer School, LANL's Center For Nonlinear Studies Annual Conference, and others.
San Miguel Chapel in Santa Fe is said to be the earliest standing church structure in the US.
Tourism is a primary element of the Santa Fe economy, with visitors thriving year-round by the climate and related outside activities (such as skiing in years of adequate snowfall; hiking in other seasons) plus cultural activities of the town/city and the region.
Other areas include "Museum Hill", the site of the primary art exhibitions of the town/city as well as the Santa Fe International Folk Art Market, which takes place each year amid the second full weekend of July.
Some visitors find Santa Fe especially attractive around the second week of September when the aspens in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains turn yellow and the skies are clear and blue.
This is also the time of the annual Fiestas de Santa Fe, celebrating the "reconquering" of Santa Fe by Don Diego de Vargas, a highlight of which is the burning Zozobra ("Old Man Gloom"), a 50-foot (15 m) marionette.
Popular day-trips in the Santa Fe region include locations such as the town of Taos about 70 mi (113 km) north of Santa Fe.
In addition, Santa Fe's ski area, Ski Santa Fe, is about 16 mi (26 km) north of the city.
Cathedral Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi, the mother church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santa Fe Santa Fe Historic District Santa Fe Railyard arts precinct Santa Fe has ten sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International: Spain Santa Fe, Spain Santa Fe is served by the Santa Fe Municipal Airport.
Since December 2012, Great Lakes Airlines has offered twice daily flight service between Santa Fe, NM and Denver, CO. Many citizens fly into the Albuquerque International Sunport and connect by other means to Santa Fe. Santa Fe is positioned on I-25.
Santa Fe Trails, run by the city, operates a number of bus routes inside the town/city during company hours and also provides connections to county-wide transit.
The New Mexico Rail Runner Express is a commuter rail service operating in Valencia, Bernalillo (including Albuquerque), Sandoval, and Santa Fe Counties.
In Santa Fe County, the service uses 18 miles (29 km) of new right-of-way connecting the BNSF Railway's old transcontinental mainline to existing right-of-way in Santa Fe used by the Santa Fe Southern Railway.
Santa Fe is presently served by three stations, Santa Fe Depot, South Capitol, and Santa Fe County/NM 599.
New Mexico Park and Ride, a division of the New Mexico Department of Transportation, and the North Central Regional Transit District operate primarily weekday commuter coach/bus service to Santa Fe from Torrance, Rio Arriba, Taos, San Miguel and Los Alamos Counties in addition to shuttle services inside Santa Fe connecting primary government activeness centers. Prior to the Rail Runner's extension to Santa Fe, Park and Ride directed commuter coach service between Albuquerque and Santa Fe.
Along with the New Mexico Rail Runner Express, a commuter rail line serving the urbane areas of Albuquerque and Santa Fe, the town/city or its environs are served by two other barns s.
The Santa Fe Southern Railway, now mostly a tourist rail experience but also carrying freight, operates excursion services out of Santa Fe as far as Lamy, 15 miles (24 km) to the southeast.
The Santa Fe Southern line is one of the United States' several rails with trails.
Passengers transiting Lamy may use a special connecting coach/van service to reach Santa Fe.
Multi-use bicycle, pedestrian, and equestrian trails are increasingly prominent in Santa Fe, for both recreation and commuting.
These include the Dale Ball Trails, a 30-mile (48 km) network starting inside two miles (3.2 km) of the Santa Fe Plaza; the long Santa Fe Rail Trail to Lamy; and the Santa Fe River Trail, which is in development.
Santa Fe is the end of three National Historic Trails: El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National Historic Trail, the Old Spanish National Historic Trail, and the Santa Fe National Historic Trail.
Santa Fe Public Library Santa Fe has 3 enhance High Schools: Santa Fe High School (1,500 Students) Public schools in Santa Fe are directed by Santa Fe Public Schools, with the exception of the New Mexico School for the Arts which is a public/private partnership comprising the NMSA-Art Institute, a nonprofit art educational institution, and NMSA-Charter School, an accredited New Mexico state charter high school.
John's College, Santa Fe University of Art and Design (formerly the College of Santa Fe), and Southwestern College; plus Santa Fe Community College and the Institute of American Indian Arts.
The town/city has six private college preliminary high schools: Santa Fe Waldorf School, St.
Michael's High School, Desert Academy, New Mexico School For The Deaf, Santa Fe Secondary School, and Santa Fe Preparatory School.
Santa Fe is home to the Santa Fe Indian School, an off-reservation school for Native Americans.
Santa Fe is also the locale of the New Mexico School for the Arts, a public-private partnership, arts-focused, high school.
The town/city has many private elementary schools as well, including Little Earth School, Santa Fe International Elementary School, Rio Grande School, Desert Montessori School, La Mariposa Montessori, The Tara School, Fayette Street Academy, The Santa Fe Girls' School and The Academy for the Love of Learning positioned in southeastern Santa Fe.
See also: Category:People from Santa Fe, New Mexico Antonio Armijo, explorer and merchant who lead the first commercial caravan between Santa Fe, Nuevo Mexico and Los Angeles, Alta California in 1829 1830.
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