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Albuquerque, founded in 1706 as La Villa de Alburquerque by governor Francisco Cuervo y Valdés and named after the 10th Duke of Alburquerque and Viceroy of New Spain, is New Mexico's most populous city and the county seat of Bernalillo County. Located in the Albuquerque Basin between the Sandia Mountains and West Mesa with the Rio Grande flowing through its center, the city had 564,559 residents in the 2020 census, making it the 32nd most populous in the U.S. and fourth largest in the Southwest, with a metropolitan area of 955,000 residents. Albuquerque serves as a hub for technology, fine arts, and mass media, home to Albuquerque International Sunport, the University of New Mexico, Sandia National Laboratories, and Kirtland Air Force Base. Known as the Duke City, Albuquerque hosts the world's largest balloon festival, the largest North American powwow, and the New Mexico State Fair, while featuring over 160 historic sites and a renowned restaurant scene centered on New Mexican cuisine. The city has a centuries-long history of Native American habitation, including the continuously inhabited Sandia Pueblo (founded in the 14th century) and Pueblo of Isleta, and served as a Spanish colonial trading and military outpost on El Camino Real linking Mexico City to northern New Spain territories. Santa Fe is the capital of New Mexico and the fourth-most populous city in the state with 87,505 residents as of the 2020 census, located at 6,998 feet elevation in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, making it the highest U.S. state capital. Founded in 1610 as the capital of Nuevo México, Santa Fe is the oldest state capital and earliest European settlement west of the Mississippi River, serving as a major commercial hub along El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro and the Santa Fe Trail before becoming part of the United States in 1848 and New Mexico's state capital in 1912. Blending indigenous, Spanish, and American influences, Santa Fe is recognized as the cultural capital of the Southwestern United States and the first U.S. city inducted into UNESCO's Creative Cities Network in 2005. The city hosts over 250 art galleries, numerous museums, and three major annual art markets, with one-tenth of all employment in artistic and cultural industries - the highest proportion of writers and authors in any U.S. city. Santa Fe is renowned for its adobe-style Pueblo Revival architecture, distinctive contributions to New Mexican cuisine and music, and world-renowned artistic institutions including the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum and the immersive art collective Meow Wolf. Farmington is a city in San Juan County, New Mexico, with a 2020 census population of 46,624, serving as the largest city in one of the four metropolitan statistical areas in New Mexico and the commercial hub for northwestern New Mexico and the Four Corners region. Located at the junction of the San Juan, Animas, and La Plata Rivers on the Colorado Plateau, the city was originally settled by Ancestral Pueblo people in the 7th century and later inhabited by Navajos, Jicarilla Apaches, and Utes before being incorporated as Farmington in 1901 with 548 residents. The economy is primarily driven by petroleum, natural gas, and coal production, along with retail services, supplemented by the nearby Navajo Mine and Four Corners Generating Station. The city gained historical notoriety for a mass UFO sighting on March 18, 1950, when over half the population reported seeing large saucers flying at rapid speeds, and served as the site of an underground nuclear detonation in 1967 located 50 miles east. Farmington is situated on the Trails of the Ancients Byway scenic route and provides access to nearby Ancestral Puebloan ruins at Salmon Ruins and Aztec Ruins.