Rio Rancho - City of Vision - A Sense of Place - Albuquerque's Environmental Story

Rio Rancho - City of Vision : "History of an Anomaly In a state with a history and culture as rich and as old as New Mexico's, Rio Rancho is an anomaly. A city with no building older than 35 years in a state that can claim the Anasazi Indians and visits from Coronado makes for an interesting combination. The city of Rio Rancho did not prosper because of ancient civilizations or because it was a trading center in the pioneer days. Rio Rancho was not developed because of its proximity to water or because it was good farming or grazing land. The early families in Rio Rancho cannot claim to come from generations of native New Mexicans. Instead, the people of Rio Rancho have chosen to be residents of this young and emerging city. They want to live in this new community that calls itself the City of Vision. And perhaps for the very reason its beginnings are so different from the rest of New Mexico, it is achieving an identity different from traditional New Mexico cities."


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