Las Cruces

Also known as Las Cruces, New Mexico, Las Cruces, NM

city in and county seat of Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States

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Las Cruces is a city in New Mexico that serves as the county seat of Doña Ana County. As the largest city in southern New Mexico, it is an important regional center for the area.

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Vinony's link graph records 2,766 inbound references to Las Cruces, and connects out to race and ethnicity in the United States Census, African Americans and Non-Hispanic Whites.

The entry is geolocated on the map in NM.

Vinony files it under Accuracy disputes from March 2022, Cities in Doña Ana County, New Mexico and Cities in New Mexico.

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Wikidata facts

Official name: Las Cruces
Population: 45086
Area: 0.250841
Elevation: 1191
Official website: www.lascruces.gov
Image: City of Las Cruces.jpg
Households: 41467
Dialing code: 575

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postal code: 88013
Commons category: Las Cruces, New Mexico
inception: 1849-00-00
P8168: common year starting and ending on Saturday
water as percent of area: 0.18
IPA transcription: /lɑːsˈkrusɪs/
per capita income: 24674
P12749: Lavagno

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Encyclopedic overview

Las Cruces (/lɑːsˈkruːsɪs/; Spanish: [las 'kruses]; lit. 'the crosses') is a city in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States, and its county seat. The population was 111,385 at the 2020 census, making it the second-most populous city in New Mexico, and the largest in both Doña Ana County and southern New Mexico. It is the principal city of the Las Cruces metropolitan statistical area, which encompasses all of Doña Ana County and had an estimated 230,000 residents in 2024. The city is also part of the larger El Paso–Las Cruces combined statistical area.

Las Cruces is the economic and geographic center of the Mesilla Valley, the agricultural region on the floodplain of the Rio Grande, which extends from Radium Springs to the west side of El Paso, Texas. The Organ Mountains, 10 miles (16 km) to the east, are dominant in the city's landscape, along with the Doña Ana Mountains, Robledo Mountains, and Picacho Peak. Las Cruces lies 225 mi (362 km) south of Albuquerque, 42 mi (68 km) northwest of El Paso, and 41 mi (66 km) north of the Mexico–United States border.

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