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NM Finalist | National Geographic Bee 2012


hi I’m Gabriel cuneo the 2012 winner of
the state Geography Bee for New Mexico
Here I am in my home town albuquerque
you can see it they’re kind of big the
larger City New Mexico about 500,000
people here i am on the high Mesa above
it surrounded by some local
today I’m going to take you up to the
top of the Sandia Mountains about 10,000
feet above sea level going up the
world’s longest tramway
come on let’s go
Oh
Oh
Here I am on the South Sandia Crest
Trail about 500 feet from the top way
out there read out over the fast lane
albuquerque founded in 1706 Spanish
colonial outpost it was originally
supposed to be called alburquerque’s in
honor of the Duke of Albuquerque space
English man
the English man who sold here they
clinic baby alburquerque’s so they ended
up calling in town and so the name is
stuck hi there Here I am up the other
side of the sandia mountains facing
eastern New Mexico there’s a the
chairlifts behind me
it’s not operatives it’s not
but they’re still from snow on
now to the question decide to go
anywhere in the world i would go to
Australia
I would visit the Great Barrier Reef
Ayers Rock Lake Erie and Tasmania very
beautiful place there and it’s mostly
deserted so it’d be a nice place to go
camping
under the stars hey National Geographic
No
that Dalhart Texas is closer to five
state capitols other than its own Austin
can get them
well
they’re Cheyenne Wyoming Danice a new
mexico denver colorado Topeka Kansas and
Oklahoma City Oklahoma
I hope you guys because real means River
in Spanish bhakti means force in Spanish
now for some more questions if you guys
were to trap to my town you could do
plenty of things you could go to the
International Balloon Fiesta which takes
place in the first piece of October
people from all over the world come to
slide their balloons in competitions and
a celebration or a fiesta
so
you could come to see the museum’s to
there’s the National atomic museum
the natural history museum and then
there’s explore which is sort of a
children’s museum
you could also come for national parks
and go around the state vandal we’re
Penn truck carlsbad caverns and white
fan if i was king of the world for an
entire day i would try to fix the
problem with water water scarce around
the world and
a billion people every day joke in
enough water that’s one seventh of the
I would make sure that the water was
evenly distributed among
I’m an old town out
19 Oh
my favorite geography staff
a volcano on the big island hawaii thank
you for everything I hope you enjoy
video so bye for now
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