The Bandera Ice Caves’ temperature never rises above freezing.The villages of Truchas and Chimayo have descendants of Spanish conquistadors that still speak a form of 16th century Spanish spoken nowhere else in the world today.It is against the law to dance around a Sombrero in New Mexico.The University of New Mexico’s Institute of Meteoritics was the first of its kind in the world.John Denver was born in Roswell, NM.