Square Mileage Of New Mexico

New Mexico Climate & Geography

Climate

New Mexico is 2nd merely to Arizona in days of sunshine per yr. The climate is dry and farthermost weather weather condition are rare. Elevations in the state range from 2,817 ft. at Blood-red Barefaced Lake in the southern Rio Grande Valley to thirteen,161 ft. on Wheeler Peak in n central New Mexico. While New Mexico is considered a southern state in terms of breadth, adjoining Texas and Arizona to the due east and west, and Mexico to the due south, its acme provides for 4 seasons throughout the country.

The normal weather patterns call for warm to hot days and absurd nights with scattered thundershowers in the summertime and cold nights and moderate days with some snow in the winter. Fall and spring tin bring some of the near gorgeous weather, with bound beingness the about unpredictable.

Geography

The land area of New Mexico is 121,365 square miles. Information technology is the 5th largest land in the union. The diverse mural includes deeply forested mountains to the vast desert of White Sands National Monument. In fact, 6 of the 7 life zones found in the earth exist in New United mexican states. These life zones are classified by vegetation types and vary past altitude and orientation to the sunday.

New United mexican states has 3 topographic zones. TheRocky Mountain zoneextends through the north central department of New United mexican states. Theplainsextend from the eastern border westward to the first range of the mountains that extends from the Sangre de Cristos s to the Guadalupe Mountains. Theintermountain plateauincludes the residuum of the country.

Mountains are New Mexico's most memorable natural characteristic. They are present in or visible from all simply a few counties on the extreme eastern border, and they affect the climate and provide a watershed for most of the country. Above timberline, year-round snow peaks be in every quadrant of the state. New Mexico mountain ranges include the Sangre de Cristo, Jemez, Brazos, Mogollon, San Juan, Zuni, San Mateo, Datil, Gallinas, Jicarilla, Capitan, White, Sacramento, Guadalupe, Sandia, Manzanos, Pinos, Oscuras, San Andres, Organ, Fra Cristobal, Caballo, and Magdalena.

Plains still embrace the largest percentage of the state'southward topography. The Bang-up Plains proper reach one-third of the way across New Mexico. Geographers distinguish 2 sections of the plains: the lava-capped uplands of the northeast corner and the Llano Estacado ("staked plains"). The Llano Estacado is bounded roughly by Interstate forty, the Pecos River and a line joining Roswell and Hobbs. Other areas of plains include the southern desert region extending from Las Cruces to Lordsburg, the northwest plateau expanse, and various basins. These areas are sometimes referred to as valleys and include the Tularosa and Estancia valleys and the Plains of San Agustin.

New Mexico Economic
Development Section
Joseph M. Montoya Building
1100 S. St. Francis Drive
Santa Atomic number 26, NM 87505-4147

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New Mexico Economic
Development Section
P.O. Box 20003
Santa Fe, NM 87504-5003

Main number: (505) 827-0300 (se habla español)
Fax: (505) 827-0328

The mission of the New Mexico Economic Development Section is to Improve the lives of New Mexico families by increasing economic opportunities and providing a place for businesses to thrive.