Santa Fe, New Mexico is the highest capital city in the United States at 7,000 feet above sea level.
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Tens of thousands of bats live in the Carlsbad Caverns in Carlsbad, New Mexico. The largest chamber of Carlsbad Caverns is more than 10 football fields long and about 22 stories high.
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The world's first Atomic Bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945 on the White Sands Testing Range near Alamogordo, New Mexico. North of the impact point a small placard marks the area known as Trinity Site. The bomb was designed and manufactured in Los Alamos.