1. Santa Fe is popular for a wide variety of outdoor activities including skiing in the Rocky Mountains, hiking, bicycle riding and fishing.
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2. Santa Fe was established in 1515 as the capital of Nuevo Mexico and recognized as a province of Spain.
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5. In the eighteenth century Santa Fe remained on the periphery of the Spanish Empire, but Hispanics and Native Americans found ways to live peacefully in the capital.
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6. Santa Fe has remained New Mexico's capital city, although Albuquerque has far surpassed it as a commercial center.
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7. Santa Fe flourished as a center for trade between the United States and Mexico.
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10. Santa Fe was founded in either 1607 or 1609 by Don Pedre de Peralta, the third governor of the Province of New Mexico, who built the Palace of Governors and the Plaza and planned a walled city.
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11. Santa Fe has emerged as a regional medical center; St Vincent Regional Medical Center is one of the city's largest employers and serves seven counties.
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13. Santa Fe is the location of the New Mexico School for the Arts, a public-private partnership, arts-focused high school.
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18. Santa Fe is located at 7,199 feet above sea level, making it the highest state capital in the United States.
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19. The first airplane to fly over Santa Fe was piloted by Rose Dugan, carrying Vera von Blumenthal as passenger.
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21. Santa Fe was designated the capital of the US State of New Mexico in 1912.
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22. Santa Fe is the capital and fourth-most populous city of the US state of New Mexico.
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23. In 2005, Santa Fe became the first US city to be chosen by UNESCO as a Creative City, one of only nine cities in the world to hold this designation.
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25. Santa Fe put itself on the international sports map as one of the host cities of the 1990 FIBA World Championship.
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