Las Cruces

Las Cruces lies in the Mesilla Valley beside the Rio Grande in southern New Mexico, where irrigation has supported farmland amid the Chihuahuan Desert and helped establish the city as a regional centre. The jagged Organ Mountains rise to the east, and their surrounding public lands form part of Organ Mountains–Desert Peaks National Monument. New Mexico State University, founded in 1888 as Las Cruces College, anchors a long tradition of education and agricultural research. Nearby Mesilla preserves a historic adobe plaza and recalls the region’s Hispanic and American frontier past. See how Las Cruces connects with southern New Mexico by browsing webcams nearby.

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