‘’The Land of the Enchantment’’ known as New Mexico was the 47th state of the United States on January 6, 1912. Many years before New Mexico was discovered. One day in 9000 BCE hunters of the natives tracked animals into Clovis, New Mexico. Also in 850ce, a group of Native Americans called the Anasazis began to build and civilize New Mexico. Unfortunately, the Spanish drove them out by 1539. New Mexico has many important facts that I am about to state.
In addition, in 1528 there was an expedition of 400 men looking for gold in Florida. Diversity kept them from the gold. They ended up with three men remaining and one was a former slave named Estevanico. The Native Americans had told them about a place called the “seven cities of gold.”This was just the city of Cibola. The small group of men wondered the southwest for many years until they found Mexico City, the capital of Mexico (Where Spain had settled.) Spain set out an expedition for Cibola. Estevanico and Marco de Niza both set out for Cibola on the first expedition, but Estevanico died on the way there and de Niza told tells on how they made it there. Then a man named Francisco Coronado took lead and …show more content…
It has a lot of mountains and ranges. There is deserts as well that keeps the climate bazaar. Major geography is Sangre de Cristo Range, Chaco canyon, Shiprock, and many more. The climate is semi arid to arid. It receives 13.9 (mm) of rain per year.) Average temperatures are 64 degrees as high and 40 degrees low. New Mexico is a very neutral state in geography.
To conclude, New Mexico was one of the youngest states of the USA. It was first discovered by the Native Americans then took over by the Spanish. New Mexico has a very rocky sandy soil and land. It has a variety of mountains and deserts. The climate is very arid to semi arid and had an average temperature and precipitation rate. New Mexico is an outstanding state to write