New Mexico Miscellaneous Topics
Miscellaneous topics
State symbols
| State motto |
"Crescit eundo"
("It Grows as It Goes") |
1912 |
| State nicknames |
"Land of Enchantment"
(Spanish: "Tierra del Encanto" or "Tierra Encantada") |
19_? |
| "The Colorful State" |
19_? |
| "The Spanish State" |
19_? |
| State songs |
"O Fair New Mexico" |
1917 |
| "Asi Es Nuevo México" |
1971 |
| "New Mexico-Mi Lindo Nuevo México" |
1995 |
| State flower |
Yucca flower |
1927 |
| State tree |
Two-Needle Piñon pine |
1949 |
| State bird |
Greater roadrunner |
1949 |
| State fish |
Cutthroat trout |
1955 |
| State animal |
black bear |
1963 |
| State vegetables |
frijoles con chile (fr??h?l??s c?n ch?l?) beans and chile pepper |
1965 |
| State gem |
turquoise |
1967 |
| State grass |
blue grama |
1973 |
| State fossil |
coelophysis |
1981 |
| State cookie |
bizcochito |
1989 |
| State insect |
tarantula wasp |
1989 |
| State ballad |
"Land of Enchantment" |
1989 |
| State poem |
A Nuevo México |
1991 |
| State question * |
"Red or Green?" |
1999 |
| State Tie |
Bolo Tie |
2007 |
| State ship |
"USS New Mexico (BB-40)" |
1918–1946 |
| "USS New Mexico (SSN-779)" |
**2006 |
(*)The official state question refers to a question commonly heard at restaurants, where waiters will ask customers "red or green?" in reference to which kind of chili pepper or "chile sauce" the customers want served with their meal. This type of "chile" is usually distinct from salsa, as the chile sauce is much finer and thicker and more commonly served with meals. Natives are more likely to refer to the chili sauce put on their meal as just plain "chile", and not as any form of "salsa" (which is usually reserved by natives in English for the salsa served with chips; everything else is just "chile"). If the diner wants both they can answer with, "Christmas" (or "Navidad" in Spanish), in reference to the two traditional colors of Christmas—Red and Green.
(**)The second USS New Mexico, SSN-779, is scheduled to be constructed.
- In 1947, a craft of unknown origin crashed at or near Roswell, New Mexico. Allegedly, in 1949, another craft of unknown origin crashed near this city.
- Taos, New Mexico is known for a humming noise. See Taos Hum.
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