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Santa Fe is the capital of New Mexico and the county seat of Santa Fe County, and with 87,505 residents in the 2020 census it is the fourth-most populous city in the state.

Santa Fe was founded in 1610 by Spanish governor Pedro de Peralta, making it the oldest state capital in the United States and the earliest European settlement west of the Mississippi River.

The city's full original name was La Villa Real de la Santa Fe de San Francisco de Asís, and 'Santa Fe' is Spanish for 'Holy Faith.'

The Tewa people know the place as Ogá Pʼoegeh, meaning 'water place,' and Pueblo peoples had settled along the Santa Fe River centuries before the Spanish arrived.

The 2020 census counted 87,505 people in Santa Fe, a 28.8 percent increase from 67,947 in 2010, and the city had 39,683 households and 44,691 housing units.

At 6,998 feet above sea level in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Santa Fe sits at the highest elevation of any state capital in the United States.

The Palace of the Governors, built in 1610 on the north side of the Santa Fe Plaza and now a museum, was occupied by Pueblo peoples from 1680 to 1692 during the Pueblo Revolt.

San Miguel Chapel in Santa Fe, built around 1610, is regarded as the oldest church in the United States.

After Pueblo peoples drove the Spanish out in the 1680 Pueblo Revolt, Diego de Vargas retook Santa Fe in 1692, an event still commemorated by the Fiestas de Santa Fe and the burning of the giant marionette Zozobra.

Santa Fe was the western terminus of the Santa Fe Trail from Missouri and a key stop on El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, and it became capital of the U.S. Territory of New Mexico in 1851 and the state capital in 1912.