Here they established the first Spanish capital of New Mexico. A few months later, the Spanish moved to the west bank of the Rio Grande to the village of Yunque, which they renamed San Gabriel. San Gabriel served as the Spanish capital until 1610, when Santa Fe was established.
A conifer is a tree or shrub which produces distinctive cones as part of its sexual reproduction.These woody plants are classified among the gymnosperms, and they have a wide variety of uses, from trapping carbon in the environment to providing resins which can be used in the production of solvents.everal features beyond the cones set conifers apart from other types of woody plants. A conifer is typically evergreen, although some individuals are deciduous, and almost all conifers have needle or scale-like leaves.
Jupiterimages/Photos.com/Getty Images. Conifer trees are the oldest living things on earth as well as some of the largest. This group of trees is very ancient, appearing during the Carboniferous period -- from 354 to 290 million years ago -- along with the pelycosaurs, the ancestor of birds, animals and reptiles.n conifers, this object is the cone. Cones can be male or female, and most conifers have both male and female cones on the same tree. The plant sends pollen from the male cones to the female cones' receptors using the wind.