The History of Albuquerque, New Mexico

Albuquerque’s history is filled with false starts, and foreboding events. It began with violence and deception, but has grown into a burgeoning and diverse city that dwarfs all others in New Mexico. Most people only know it as a place where Walter White made blue meth in Breaking Bad, or where Bug Bunny always took a wrong turn, but Albuquerque has a fascinating past that’s way more than I can even say here.

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Secondary Sources:

George B. Anderson, History of New MexicoIts Resources and People, 2 vols. (Los Angeles, Calif.Pacific States Publishing Co, 1907).

Howard Bryan, Albuquerque Remembered (AlbuquerqueUniversity of New Mexico Press, 2006).

Howard Roberts Lamar, The Far Southwest, 18461912A Territorial History, rev. ed. (New YorkW. W. Norton, 1970).

Joseph Sanchez, Robert Spude, and Arthur Gomez, New MexicoA History (NormanUniversity of Oklahoma Press, 2014).

Marc Simmons, New MexicoAn Interpretive History (1977; reprint, AlbuquerqueUniversity of New Mexico, 1988).

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Wiki: Albuquerque (/ˈælbəkɜːrki/ (About this soundlisten) AL-bə-kur-kee; Navajo: Beeʼeldííl Dahsinil [pèːʔèltíːl tɑ̀xsɪ̀nɪ̀l]; Eastern Keres: Arawageeki; Jemez: Vakêêke; Zuni: Alo:ke:k'ya; Jicarilla Apache: Gołgéeki'yé), abbreviated as ABQ, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Mexico, and the 32nd-most populous city in the United States. The city’s nicknames are The Duke City and Burque, both of which reference its 1706 founding as La Villa de Alburquerque in Nuevo México, as 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).[5] Since the city’s founding, it has continued to be included on travel and trade routes including Route 66, Interstate 25, Interstate 40, and the Albuquerque International Sunport. The population census-estimated population of the city as 560,218 in 2018, it is the principal city of the Albuquerque metropolitan area, which has 915,927 residents as of July 2018.[6] Albuquerque's Metropolitan statistical area is the 60th-largest in the United States. The Albuquerque MSA population includes the cities of Rio Rancho, Bernalillo, Placitas, Los Lunas, Belen, South Valley, and Bosque Farms, and forms part of the larger Albuquerque–Santa Fe–Las Vegas combined statistical area, with a total population of 1,171,991 in 2016.

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