UNM People & Places

ON A PLATEAU BELOW A GREAT SKY NEXT TO THE WATERMELON MOUNTAINS. Live and learn in a historic city on an expansive mesa a mile above sea level. A city that’s simultaneously cosmopolitan and soulful, urban and rural, and brimming with light and possibilities. This is Albuquerque. A friendly place just around the corner from ordinary, on land bisected by historic Route 66 and the great Rio Grande River, a stone’s throw from the monumental Sandia Mountains. Named for their sunset-crimson hue—“sandia” is the Spanish word for “watermelon”—they appear to leap out of the landscape to the east, and serve as an awe-inspiring example of the kind of wild, natural beauty that wraps around everything here and rushes off in every direction throughout the state. You’ll see. S P E A K I N G O F T H E S KY. It’s just kind of different here. Bigger. It seems to sweep much higher overhead, but also reaches down to kiss the sun-tanned plateau from horizon to horizon. Because that’s what the sky does over the largest city in the fifth-largest state in the country. It collaborates with thousands of wide-open miles of some of the most untamed territory in the Southwest to make an unforgettable impression on you. To inspire you. 30°F 6O°F 8O°F 68.80°F 57.10°F 45.40°F AVERAGE TEMP. AVERAGE HIGH AVERAGE LOW AVERAGE RAINFALL AVERAGE SNOWFALL AVERAGE SUNNY DAYS 9.39” 10” 310 L O C A T I O N | A L B U Q U E R Q U E v i s i t A B Q . o r g P E O P L E & P L A C E S | 0 5 0 4