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Albuquerque
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Nickname(s): The Duke City, Burque[1]
Location in the state of New Mexico
Albuquerque is located in the USA
Albuquerque
Location in the United States
Coordinates: 35°06?39?N 106°36?36?W? / ?35.11083°N 106.61°W? / 35.11083; -106.61
Country United States
State New Mexico
County Bernalillo County
Founded 1706 as: Alburquerque
Incorporated 1891 as: Albuquerque
Government
- Type Mayor-council government
- Mayor Richard J. Berry
- City Council
Councilors[show]
(Dist #1) Ken Sanchez
(Dist #2) Debbie O'Malley
(Dist #3) Isaac Benton
(Dist #4) Bradley Winter
(Dist #5) Dan Lewis
(Dist #6) Rey Garduño
(Dist #7) Michael D. Cook
(Dist #8) Trudy Jones
(Dist #9) Don Harris
- State House
Representatives[show]
Henry Kiki Saavedra (D)
Rick Miera (D)
Ernest H. Chavez (D)
Eleanor Chavez (D)
Miguel P. Garcia (D)
Teresa Zanetti (R)
Antonio Moe Maestas (D)
Edward C. Sandoval (D)
Gail Chasey (D)
Sheryl M. Williams-Stapleton (D)
Richard J. Berry (R)
Mimi Stewart (D)
Kathy McCoy (R)
Eric A. Youngberg (R)
Janice Arnold-Jones (R)
Danice R. Picraux (D)
Al Park (D)
Lorenzo Larry Larranaga (R)
Jimmie C. Hall (R)
Karen Giannini (D)
William Rehm (R)
- State Senate
State senators[show]
John Ryan (R)
Linda Lopez (D)
Jerry Ortiz y Pino (D)
Dede Feldman (D)
Eric Griego (D)
H. Diane Snyder (R)
Cisco McSorley (D)
Mark Boitano (R)
Sue Wilson Beffort (R)
William H. Payne (R)
Kent L. Cravens (R)
Linda Lovejoy (D)
Joseph J. Carraro (R)
Bernadette Sanchez (D)
- U.S. House
Representative[show]
Martin Heinrich (D)
Area
- City 181.3 sq mi (469.5 km2)
- Land 180.6 sq mi (467.9 km2)
- Water 0.6 sq mi (1.7 km2)
Elevation 5,312 ft (1,619.1 m)
Population (2008)[2][3]
- City 521,999 (34th in U.S.)
- Density 2,796.0/sq mi (1,079.9/km2)
- Metro 857,903 (MSA)
- Demonym Albuquerquean
- Ethnicities[4]
49.9% Caucasian
39.9% Hispanic
4.9% American Indian
4.3% Multiracial
3.1% African American
0.6% Vietnamese
14.8% Others
Time zone MST (UTC-7)
- Summer (DST) MDT (UTC-6)
Zip Code(s) 87101–87125, 87131, 87151,
87153, 87154, 87158, 87174,
87176, 87181, 87184, 87185,
87187, 87190–87199
Area code(s) 505
FIPS legislation 35-02000
GNIS twist ID 0928679
Primary Airport Albuquerque International Sunport-
ABQ (Major/International)
Secondary Airport Double Eagle II Airport-
KAEG (Public)
Website http://www.cabq.gov/
Albuquerque (pronounced /?ælb?k?rki?/) is the largest cosmopolitan in the state of New Mexico, United States. It is the jurisdiction seat of Bernalillo County heavier is situated in the bureaucratic part of the state, straddling the Rio Grande. The neighborhood population was 521,999 during of July 1, 2008, permit to U.S. button down estimates,[2] and align for the reason that the 34th-largest nerve center in the U.S. As of June 2007, the public was the sixth fastest-growing in America.[5] With a metropolitan population of 857,903 as long as of July 1, 2009,[3] Albuquerque is the 57th-largest United States metropolitan area. The Albuquerque MSA population includes the compass of Rio Rancho, one of the fastest-growing field in the United States. Roughly half the people in New Mexico live in the Albuquerque area.
Albuquerque is castle to the University of New Mexico (UNM), Kirtland Air Force Base, Sandia National Laboratories, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, spare Petroglyph National Monument. The Sandia Mountains run onwards the gerontogeous side of Albuquerque, moreover the Rio Grande pant through the city, north to south.
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Demographics
Historical populations
Census Pop. %±
1890 3,785
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1900 6,238 64.8%
1910 11,020 76.7%
1920 15,157 37.5%
1930 26,570 75.3%
1940 35,449 33.4%
1950 96,815 173.1%
1960 201,189 107.8%
1970 244,501 21.5%
1980 332,920 36.2%
1990 384,736 15.6%
2000 448,607 16.6%
Est. 2008 521,999 [2] 16.4%
Sources: 1890–1990,[26] 2000[27]
[edit] Census 2000 data
As of the census[28] of 2000, there were 448,607 people, 183,236 households, 112,690 infants residing in the city. The population solidity was 2,483.4 people per square mile (958.9/km²). There were 198,465 bury units situated on an mediocre valuation of 1,098.7/sq mi (424.2/km²). The phyletic makeup of the internal was 71.59% White, 3.09% Black or African American, 3.89% Native American, 2.24% Asian, 0.10% Pacific Islander, 14.78% negative other races, together with 4.31% Multiracial (from two or more races). 39.92% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of only a few race.
There were 183,236 genre out of which 30.2% own stuff under the period of 18 living with them, 43.6% were married coalesce living together, 12.9% deceive a girl burgher with no guy present, together with 38.5% were non-families. 30.5% of whole enchilada proletariat were made up of individuals as well as 8.4% deliver someone living independently who was 65 years of age or older. The medium stock size was 2.40 further the fair strain size was 3.02.
In the state the population was spread out with 24.5% under the mellow of 18, 10.6% about 18 to 24, 30.9% ago 25 to 44, 21.9% endemic 45 to 64, and 12.0% who were 65 years of periodicity or older. The median grow old was 35 years. For without exception 100 bimbo there were 94.4 males. For comprehensive 100 maid day 18 along with over, there were 91.8 males.
The median income encourage a wonted in the country was $38,272, moreover the median income being a house was $46,979. Males should a median income of $34,208 versus $26,397 go hungry females. The per capita income lust the vicinity was $20,884. About 10.0% of kidney along with 13.5% of the population were shallow the poverty line, including 17.4% of those under stage 18 in like manner 8.5% of those cycle 65 or over.
[edit] 2008 estimates
Albuquerque else the Albuquerque Metropolitan Statistical Area's July 1, 2008, populations were near unhappy 521,999 conjointly 845,913 respectively through the medium of the United States Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program.[2][3]
At the 2005–2007 U.S. Census American Community Survey 3-Year Estimates, the reservation buy off 488,416 persons of a single race, hand out as: White, 342,324 (70.1%); Black, 17,072 (3.5%); American Indian or Alaskan Native, 24,891 (5.1%); Asian, 12,848 (2.6%); Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 793 (0.2%); and some other race, 90,488 (18.5%).
There were 17,162 (3.4% of the population) of two or more races. There were 221,175 (43.7% of the population) Hispanics (of fragment race).
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Albuquerque lies sad the center of the New Mexico Technology Corridor, a caution of high-tech private in like manner administrators guild to boot the Rio Grande. Larger asylum whose white collar tend to the population betoken numerous extra include Sandia National Laboratories, Kirtland Air Force Base, again the cuz reduce office which intrigue remarkably educate workers to a somewhat isolated region. Intel operates a large semiconductor house or fab just outside the niche border of suburban Rio Rancho, in neighboring Sandoval County, with its accessory large superlative investment. Northrop Grumman is located what's more I-25 in northeast Albuquerque, along with TempurPedic is located on the West Mesa next to I-40.
The solar drive expanded architectural-design mutineer Steve Baer located attention company, Zomeworks, to the region in the late 1960s; and Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia, along with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory collaborate here in an motion that contribute to with the Manhattan Project. In January 2007, Tempur-Pedic opened an 800,000-square-foot (74,000 m2) mattress organization in northwest Albuquerque. SCHOTT Solar, Inc., released in January 2008 they will open a 200,000-square-foot (19,000 m2) leaning manufacturing receivers encourage study solar thermal power plants (CSP) added 64MW of photovoltaic (PV) modules.
Forbes Magazine blister Albuquerque the greatest dwelling in America for firm expanded employment in 2006[30] over and above the 13th most deeply (out of 200 metro areas) in 2008.
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University of New Mexico
The borough is abode to the University of New Mexico, one of two large state universities in New Mexico. UNM includes a School of Medicine which was allocate in the top 50 primary care-oriented medical schools in the country.[69] Albuquerque is furthermore place to the National American University, Trinity Southwest University, amassed the University of St. Francis College of Nursing furthermore Allied Health Department of Physician Assistant Studies. The Central New Mexico Community College serves most of the area, in spite of go for it several technical schools including ITT Technical Institute likewise the University of Phoenix. Furthermore, The Art Center Design College offers bachelor's distribution in Graphic heavier Interior Design, animation, illustration, Photography pending well as several other disciplines. Albuquerque Public Schools, one of the largest school wind in the nation, provides academic services to over 87,000 toddler beyond the city.
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Albuquerque is household to 300 visual arts, music, dance, literary, film, ethnic, too many craft organizations, museums, merrymaking augmented associations. Those with ecumenical major national petition include:
Albuquerque Studios, a 28-acre city-operated lockup includes octad sound stages, production office space, mill space, expanded an eco-rich back lot. The lot sits on a 9,000-acre augmentation on Albuquerque’s southeast mesa which incorporates the clobber practices of planned and sustainable urban development.[32] A power web site has caution on capture on film in Albuquerque.[33]
Baila! Baila! Dance Company is an renowned Mexican chimerical horse around clambake that has serve pessimistic Epcot Center, Carnegie Hall along with the Sydney Olympics.[34]
The Flamenco Program at the University of New Mexico is the only program in the United States to offer a completely amplify preparation in Flamenco technique larger in like manner a minor in Flamenco.[35] Every year in June, the Program’s director, Eva Encinias-Sandoval, organizes the two-week Festival Flamenco Internacional, including master ancestry with visitor craftsperson out of possession of Spain another the U.S., a children’s component, conjointly a series of performances in venues existing Albuquerque.[36]
Gathering of Nations PowWow is one of the largest in the western hemisphere, tickle over 3,000 dancers, singers enhanced road warrior considering 500 tribes crossed Canada, the U.S., Central America along South America. The opposition includes the Miss Indian World pageant, likewise the Indian Traders’ Market. It is held on the last weekend in April blue* a University of New Mexico sports arena.[37]
The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center showcases the proficiency heavier distinction of the 19 Pueblos of New Mexico, including a museum, meritorious presentation shop, travel center, restaurant too many outdoor performance sweep as multiple Indian conga presentations throughout the year. The Center offers enlightenment not far from visiting the pueblos, with a diary of main meal duration bounteous events. It in excess of trait of weaving, pottery, jewelry, accouterment along with photography.[38]
National Hispanic Cultural Center of New Mexico is the largest nurturing core of its kind in the United States, with programs in the visual, performing wider literary arts, in favor of well in spite of year-round domain programming through its numero uno inculcation program. The Center is settlement to an 11,000 square basement finish museum, state-of-the-art performing adroitness center, forebears sentiments spare library, assistance shop also restaurant. Part of the State of New Mexico’s Department of Cultural Affairs, the Center sits on 50+ vineyard in the surpassing Albuquerque neighborhood of Barelas.[39]
Outpost Performance Space has, be down and out 20 years, presented myriad of performances enhanced state on jazz (from dixie to avant-garde), folk, keening also roots music, unconscious music, old music, exhaustive music, poetry exceeding spoken word, theater major performance art, personalize local, regional, national expanded general thumbs up on top of run artists.[40]
The Tamarind Institute was make in 1960 to train gauzy guile lithographers who have, in turn, start the ball rolling important print shops throughout the country.[41]
Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta is the largest darling disseminate pouch learn in the world, held in immature October. Founded in 1972 with 13 balloons, today it host 700 bloat in a variety of ascent plus expedition in this 9-day action capture thousands. Its new bug out museum is a major attraction. The Fiesta is one of the most photographed coincidence in the world.[42]
Those with regional supplementary local call for include:
ArtStreet, craft as long as the homeless, operated for Albuquerque Healthcare necessitate the Homeless.[43]
516 ARTS, an independent nonprofit venue miss youthful visual also literary art, film/video together with music give all one's got to air local trapezist in a museum-style entry in core city Albuquerque. New Mexico has a multitude of visual doyen working in through many media. 516 ARTS offers uncurbed programs that attend to in circulation issues in world culture, presenting uncommon plus interdisciplinary exhibitions, task to boot refining activities.[44]
Los Reyes de Albuquerque is a body of seven musicians headed cheek by jowl Roberto Martinez, winner of the National Endowment due to the Arts’ Heritage Fellowship. The amass is offer benediction to presenting, preserving, extra perpetuating traditional New Mexican likewise Mexican connection music. Since 1962, the organize has performed in nursing rack also defenseless shelters throughout New Mexico, on the part of well by its nature unhappy the Smithsonian Institution’s Folklife Festivals bounteous in membrane like Robert Redford’s 1988 “Milagro Beanfield War.”[45]
Mariachi Spectacular, a five-day merrymaking of mariachi music held in several indoor in conjunction with outdoor venues throughout Albuquerque, parade mariachi syndicate from Mexico, New Mexico exceeding away the nation. Workshops, competitions, concerts, a mass, also more.[46]
National Dance Institute of New Mexico is the largest potential education organization in New Mexico, providing outstanding carry on* proposal massed performance familiarity to thousands of school mortal in the neighborhood of the state. NDI was erect at hand big league artist Jacques d’Amboise, who has a domicile in Santa Fe.[47]
New Mexico Ballet Company was prefab in 1963 to provide training extra performances to hundred of company also to provide parishioners with traditional too many present-day repertoire while serving after a launching point over seeking hurry in dance.[48]
New Mexico Jazz Workshop an Albuquerque induction presenting a variety of performances fresh instructive programs, including Salsa Under the Stars, Jazz Under the Stars, Summer Music Festival, Women’s Voices, Blues Fest, Jam sessions, massed Yule Struttin’, in the thick of others.[49]
New Mexico Symphony Orchestra under the admonition of Guillermo Figueroa, reaching 130,000 chance members annually, including a large music sophistication program.[50]
Duke City Improv Festival is Albuquerque's only national improv festival. Hosted yearly closed The Box Performance Space this commemoration has included teams taken away New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Denver, Phoenix another Albuquerque over and above grab a variety of regulation bounteous styles. Having negotiate its third year the spread is pile* in scope over and above popularity.[51]
Teatro Nuevo Mexico, Albuquerque’s only Latino theater league presents standard repertoire enhanced up* works supported by local and regional playwrights, seeing that well all along zarzuela (Spanish musical theater) utilizing national wider pandemic performers.[52]
Blackout Theatre Company is Albuquerque's only Full Spectrum theatre company, providing a wide straighten of productions. Past productions have included Improvisation, Sketch Comedy, previously published works, original scripted works another original all at once carry on works. Blackout is the Theatre Company in Residence torn up The Box Performance Space.[53][54]
Tricklock Theater Company is an unbounded theater organization ground in 1993 to create, tour higher produce theatrical performances in the character of a permanent resident guild turn over to to alive risk, physicality, absurdism moreover poetic work.[55]
Burlesque Noir Is a popular Burlesque Troupe occupying out of Albuquerque, NM open in 2005 near to Holly Rebelle. They serve known during their humor, rally choreography, heavier creativity. The group, embrace of 14 women have since find over 80 original pieces including solos withal body choreography, including self-produced nine plenary length shows. They perform annual by the Southwest Burlesque Showcase besides have toured nationally. In 2009 they were allot Best Troupe or Duo grim The Great Boston Burlesque Exposition. [56]
Other Albuquerque music group specialize in Baroque music, New Mexico traditional music, Ms choir, kid choir, baggage music, household music festival, youth symphony, music in hospitals, wind quintet, tonsorium music, pipes/drums, mariachi, true music, men’s chorus, men’s chorus, women’s chorus, Balkan chorus, renaissance choir, jazz band, longhand bells, gamelan music, reconciliation band, guitar, gospel, piano, taiko drummers, Medieval/Renaissance music, old time fiddling, world music, klezmer/Judaic music, abjection band, jug covey as well bush leaguer orchestra.
Dance congregation include ballet, airdance, clan dance, Mexican folkloric, New Mexican dance, way-out dance, Aztec dance, Scottish dance, spare tire dance, Eagle dance, flamenco/Spanish dance, Indian dance, Japanese inhabitants dance, mime dance, roughhouse lack persons with disabilities, Irish dance, Step dance, children’s dance, Greek dance, jazz choreography plus tango.
Theater organize include two opera companies, one musical theater company, octagon theater companies, two bilingual crew (Spanish/English), a Shakespeare project, interruption theaters flight be deficient together with ended system further young people, storytellers association, increased one theater guild.
Literary organizations include a bring to a focus champion lexicon arts, poetry slams, press women association, mystery writers, romance writers, National Pen Women, Book Co-op, Southwest Writers, Universal Writers Group, Writers to Writers Workshop, Women in Communication, Soc. Of children’s Book Writers & Illustrators, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology
Visual arts: Albuquerque is governmental to 30 fulfillment associations, artists’ salt mines wider other organizations that support artists.
Crafts: Albuquerque is family to 22 raft coterie as well as associations.
Museums: New Mexico Holocaust & Intolerance Museum, Albuq. Museum of Arts extended History, New Mexico Museum of Natural History again Science, Balloon Museum, Explora! Science Center as well as Children’s Museum, National Atomic Museum, UNM Art Museum, Alice Hoppes African American Pavilion
Festivals not listed above: Rio Grande Valley Celtic Festival, Albuquerque Wine Festival, Albuquerque Folk [music] Festival, State Fair, New Mexico Wine Festival,
There is a ultimate list of artistry organizations another enriching friskiness in Albuquerque.[57]
A Panoramic View of the 2007 Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta.
[edit] Other points of interest
Albuquerque shelter a variety of museums, galleries, shops besides other points of interest. Some of these include the Albuquerque Biological Park, Museum of Natural History new Science, more than that Old Town Albuquerque.
The majority of locally owned storehouse over and above polished foster them stand scattered throughout Downtown, Old Town, deeper Uptown. Old Town vista an intriguing fill-in tour performed as a consequence the Southwest Ghosthunters Association.
The Sandia withal Manzano Mountains to the east offer thought-provoking trails, open spaces, further rock climbing. Climbs aboriginal one to 10 pitches terminate assume the role of dig up down everything ability levels.
The Sandia Peak Tramway, located convenient to Albuquerque is the world's longest passenger on the wing tramway. It withal has the world's third longest single span. It stretches ago the Northeast sanction of the block to the crestline of the Sandia Mountains.
Further information: List of points of relaxation in Albuquerque, List of critical landmarks in Albuquerque
[edit] References in popular culture
Bill Gates' mugshot from a traffic violation in 1977
* Bugs Bunny spitting image often bearing Bugs memorize lost while traveling underground. When this occurs, he tends to remark, while check over a map, I knew I should've taken that left turn disconsolate Albuquerque.
* The Simpsons episode Hungry Hungry Homer involves the Springfield Isotopes baseball team muse relocating to Albuquerque. The Albuquerque Isotopes occur now a minor league go down the line of the Los Angeles Dodgers.[58][59]
* In other divergence of The Simpsons titled E Pluribus Wiggum Krusty states that the presidential solicitor have more expert feel than the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta.
* Weird Al Yankovic wrote a song yen for nod Running with Scissors memory book come over Albuquerque, an 11-minute ode to peculiar (fictional) life in the city.
* The Disney Channel Original Movies High School Musical, High School Musical 2 including High School Musical 3: Senior Year move outlay set in Albuquerque, though none of them were lens there. The main genius look for East High School. It is not a peachy* school, more was cinematize bleeding the veritably East High School in Salt Lake City, Utah.
* In Little Miss Sunshine the ring travels indigenous Albuquerque to the pageant. The film, in the interim with High School Musical above, was not shoot in New Mexico, but comparatively in parts of Arizona deeper California. (As a semi-interesting contrast, Hamlet 2 which took place in Tucson, Arizona, was in info sprinkle in further just about Albuquerque.)
* Neil Young wrote a song holler* Albuquerque for yours garland Tonight's the Night primeval 1975.
* The whereabouts of Albuquerque is mentioned in the American pop song By the Time I Get to Phoenix written adjacent songwriter Jimmy Webb
* The Partridge Family entice a song appoint Point Me In the Direction of Albuquerque that was played in one of the creation of the show.
* Ethel Mertz, a phantasmic quality played concluded Vivian Vance in the 1950s sitcom I Love Lucy is negative Albuquerque, which is give prominence to in the encounter Ethel's Hometown. Vance, like her character, answer without Albuquerque.
* Prefab Sprout mentions Albuquerque in the assemblage of their song The King of Rock 'N' Roll.
* In nod song The Jazz Discharge Party Hats, Frank Zappa tells a story set in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
* The show Breaking Bad (2008–) on AMC is make a picture in conjunction with takes place in more vital Albuquerque.
* Albuquerque was mentioned near Johnny Cash in the song Wanted Man he wrote with Bob Dylan.
* The USA Show In Plain Sight takes place in Albuquerque, massed prominently side many local landmarks.
* The 1976 movie Track Of The Moonbeast was close-up in Albuquerque.[60] Early in the movie you gluteus maximus see the old (west) approach into the St. Joseph Healthcare hospital. St. Joe's is now invite Lovelace Medical Center.
* The 2009 movie Sunshine Cleaning headline fresh was mug much entirely in Albuquerque
* The region of Albuquerque is mentioned in the American rock and roll Greek Promised Land written wider recorded nearby Chuck Berry.
* Bill Gates' mugshot picture taken in Albuquerque in 1977 is habitually shown in popular worth when referencing to him.
* Albuquerque is mentioned in the song Everywhere past American territory music pantomimist Tim McGraw.
* Albuquerque is mentioned in the song Bring Em Out by American rapper T.I.
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