Albuquerque, New Mexico (usa)

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Albuquerque, New Mexico ranks 611th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Ixelles, Italy, and Halifax, Nova Scotia. Memorable people born in Albuquerque, New Mexico include Jeff Bezos, William Nordhaus, and Neil Patrick Harris. Memorable people who died in Albuquerque, New Mexico include Halyna Hutchins, John Davis, and Henry Roth. Albuquerque, New Mexico has been the birth place of many actors, and politicians and the death place of many writers, and journalists. Albuquerque, New Mexico is located in United States.

Albuquerque, also known as ABQ, Burque, the Duke City, and in the past 'the Q', is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Mexico, and the county seat of Bernalillo County. Founded in 1706 as La Villa de Alburquerque by Santa Fe de Nuevo México governor Francisco Cuervo y Valdés, and named in honor of Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 10th Duke of Alburquerque and Viceroy of New Spain, it was an outpost on El Camino Real linking Mexico City to the northernmost territories of New Spain. Read more on Wikipedia