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Albuquerque (/ˈælbəkɜːrki/ (listen) AL-bə-kur-kee, Spanish: [alβuˈkeɾke]), abbreviated as ABQ, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Mexico. The city’s nicknames are The Duke City and Burque, both of which quotation its 1706 founding by Nuevo México executive Francisco Cuervo y Valdés as La Villa de Alburquerque. Named in rave review of next Viceroy the 10th Duke of Alburquerque, the Villa was an outpost on El Camino Real for the Tiquex and Hispano towns in the area (such as Barelas, Corrales, Isleta Pueblo, Los Ranchos, and Sandia Pueblo). Since the city’s founding, it has continued to be included upon travel and trade routes including Santa Fe Railway (ATSF), Route 66, Interstate 25, Interstate 40, and the Albuquerque International Sunport. The 2019 census-estimated population of the city is 560,513, making Albuquerque the 32nd-most populous city in the United States and the fourth-largest in the Southwest. It is the principal city of the Albuquerque metropolitan area, which had 915,927 residents as of July 2018. The metropolitan population includes Rio Rancho, Bernalillo, Placitas, Zia Pueblo, Los Lunas, Belen, South Valley, Bosque Farms, Jemez Pueblo, Cuba, and allowance of Laguna Pueblo. This metro is included in the larger Albuquerque–Santa Fe–Las Vegas combine statistical area (CSA), with a population of 1,171,991 as of 2016. The CSA constitutes the southernmost reduction of the Southern Rocky Mountain Front megalopolis, including further major Rocky Mountain region cities such as Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Denver, Colorado, with a population of 5,467,633 according to the 2010 United States Census.

Albuquerque serves as the county seat of Bernalillo County, and is in north-central New Mexico. The Sandia–Manzano Mountains rule along the eastern side of Albuquerque, and the Rio Grande flows north to south through its center, while the West Mesa and Petroglyph National Monument make stirring the western part of the city. Albuquerque has one of the highest elevations of any major city in the U.S., ranging from 4,900 feet (1,500 m) above sea level near the Rio Grande to more than 6,700 feet (2,000 m) in the foothill areas of Sandia Heights and Glenwood Hills. The civic apex is found in an undeveloped Place within the Albuquerque Open Space; there, the terrain rises to an height above sea level of nearly 6,880 feet (2,100 m), and the metropolitan area’s highest point is the Sandia Mountains crest at an altitude of 10,678 feet (3,255 m).

The economy of Albuquerque centers upon science, medicine, technology, commerce, education, entertainment, and culture outlets. The city is house to Kirtland Air Force Base, Sandia National Laboratories, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Presbyterian Health Services, and both the University of New Mexico and Central New Mexico Community College have their main campuses in the city. Albuquerque is the center of the New Mexico Technology Corridor, a engagement of high-tech institutions, including the metropolitan area being the location of Intel’s Fab 11X In Rio Rancho and a Facebook Data Center in Los Lunas. Albuquerque was as a consequence the founding location of MITS and Microsoft. Film studios have a major presence in the allow in of New Mexico, for example Netflix has a main production hub at Albuquerque Studios. There are numerous shopping centers and malls within the city, including ABQ Uptown, Coronado, Cottonwood, Nob Hill, and Winrock. The city is the location of a horse racing track and casino called The Downs Casino and Racetrack, and the Pueblos surrounding the city feature resort casinos, including Sandia Resort, Santa Ana Star, Isleta Resort, and Laguna Pueblo’s Route 66 Resort.

The city hosts the International Balloon Fiesta, the world’s largest buildup of hot-air balloons, taking place every October at a venue referred to as Balloon Fiesta Park, with its 47-acre opening field. Another large venue is Expo New Mexico, where other annual events are held, such as North America’s largest pow wow at the Gathering of Nations, as well as the New Mexico State Fair. Other major venues throughout the metropolitan area include the National Hispanic Cultural Center, the University of New Mexico’s Popejoy Hall, Santa Ana Star Center, and Isleta Amphitheater. Old Town Albuquerque’s Plaza, Hotel, and San Felipe de Neri Church hosts usual fiestas and deeds such as weddings, also close Old Town are the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, Explora, and Albuquerque Biological Park. Located in Downtown Albuquerque are historic theaters such as the KiMo Theater, and near the Civic Plaza is the Al Hurricane Pavilion and Albuquerque Convention Center gone its Kiva Auditorium. Due to its population size, the metropolitan Place regularly receives most national and international music concerts, Broadway shows, and new large traveling events, as skillfully as New Mexico music, and new local music performances.

Likewise, due to the metropolitan size, it is house to a diverse restaurant scene from various global cuisines, and the state’s determined New Mexican cuisine. Being the focus of the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District gives an agricultural contrast, along acequias, to the then again heavily urban atmosphere of the city. Crops such as New Mexico chile are grown along completely Rio Grande, the red or green chile pepper is a staple of the abovementioned New Mexican cuisine. The Albuquerque metro is a major contributor of the Middle Rio Grande Valley AVA similar to New Mexico wine produced at several vineyards, it is also home to several New Mexican breweries. The river then provides trade permission with the Mesilla Valley (containing Las Cruces, New Mexico and El Paso, Texas) region to the south, with its Mesilla Valley AVA and the next-door Hatch Valley which is capably known for its New Mexico chile peppers.