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Built along the Rio Grande, Albuquerque grew into New Mexico’s largest city. The Sandia Mountains rise immediately to the east, while the river’s cottonwood bosque forms a green corridor through the desert metropolis. Founded in 1706 as a Spanish colonial settlement, Old Town preserves the original plaza and the San Felipe de Neri Church. On the city’s western mesa, Petroglyph National Monument protects volcanic landscapes marked with ancestral Puebloan and Spanish petroglyphs. Albuquerque is also internationally associated with the annual Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, held each autumn. Browse other webcams across Albuquerque and New Mexico to place this setting in a wider geographic context.

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