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 Marshall Rosenberg, Bobby Unser, and Henry Roth. Albuquerque, New Mexico has been the birth place of many actors, and politicians and the death place of many writers, and racing drivers. Albuquerque, New Mexico is located in United States.

Albuquerque, also known as ABQ, Burque, and the Duke City, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Mexico. 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 served as an outpost on El Camino Real linking Mexico City to the northernmost territories of New Spain. Read more on Wikipedia