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New Mexico Tourism Department

state agency of New Mexico

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 27, 2025
Entity authorityQ16943647 ↗
Source-derived summary

The New Mexico Tourism Department is a state agency of New Mexico, headquartered in the Lamy Building in Santa Fe. It publishes New Mexico Magazine and distributes New Mexico True Television.

Editorial summary

“New Mexico Tourism Department” enters the record as state agency of New Mexico. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Mexico, Tourism and Department can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 31-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Mexico, Tourism and Department.
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“New Mexico Tourism Department” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Mexico, Tourism and Department provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 27, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q16943647. VIAF identifies the subject as 138522949. The Library of Congress control number is n93018121. None of the 4 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “New Mexico Tourism Department” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.