NM-46 Traditional Cache
wolf11469: Given the lack of gates and the scattering of houses on the north end of this parcel of land I was convinced that this was public land. Apparently I was mistaken, so these are being archived. My apologies to the owner and to any cacher who had to deal with an irate land leaser.
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This Geo-art can be driven if you have a four wheel drive vehicle. You will pass through a cattle gate on the east and west side, they are not locked and it is not private property.
Geocaching has taken us too many places throughout NM this year as we celebrate our state’s Centennial. Each month there was a Centennial event in a different city in NM. At each event there was a cache placed that contained clues to the final NM Centennial Puzzle Cache to be published in December. On January 06, 1912 NM became the 47th state. It is the 5th biggest state in the USA with an Area - 121,593 square miles and New Mexico is the 36th most populous state in the USA with a population as of July 2009 of 2,009,671. There are 33 Counties with Bernalillo being the largest with a population of 556,678. There is a challenge cache to gather a cache in each of these 33 counties, see the NM Challenge on the geocaching home page for GC codes and locations. The name of this state is an anglicized version of "Nuevo Mexico", the Spanish name for "place of Mexitli" one of the Aztec gods. The province that was once Spanish New Mexico included all of present day New Mexico, most of Colorado and Arizona, and slices of Utah, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Wyoming. The Original American Territory of New Mexico that congress created in 1850 included all of New Mexico and Arizona plus parts of Colorado, Nevada, and Utah. The boundaries of present day New Mexico were drawn by congress in 1863 but New Mexico didn't become a state until 1912. Our flag's design incorporates elements of both native and Spanish culture. New Mexico has far more sheep and cattle than people. There are only about 12 people per square mile.
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