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Fast Facts About Albuquerque
Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos was born in Albuquerque.
The Rio Grande runs through Albuquerque and is known to Mexicans as the Rio Bravo.
Albuquerque remained a small town until the latter part of the 19th century and the arrival of the railroad.
The city sits at 5,314 feet above sea level, making it the highest metropolitan area on the American mainland.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ernie Pyle called Albuquerque home, and his little white house with a picket fence is now a branch library filled with memorabilia from his days covering World War II.
