Las Cruces, New Mexico
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Las Cruces is the second-most populous city in the U.S. state of New Mexico and the seat of Doña Ana County. As of the 2020 census the population was 111,385. Las Cruces is the most populous city in both Doña Ana County and southern New Mexico. The Las Cruces metropolitan area had an estimated population of 213,849 in 2017. It is the principal city of a metropolitan statistical area which encompasses all of Doña Ana County and is part of the larger El Paso–Las Cruces combined statistical area with a population of 1,088,420 making it the 56th largest combined statistical area in the United States.
Image: Las Cruces (cropped)
Image: Foster Hall NMSU
Image: Las Cruces NM street scenery (cropped)
Image: Rio Grande Theatre Las Cruces New Mexico
Hatch, New Mexico
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Hatch is a village in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 1,648 at the 2010 census. The town is experiencing moderate growth, along with its outliers of Salem, Arrey, Derry, and Rincon. Hatch is widely known as the "best chile place in the World," for growing a wide variety of peppers, especially the New Mexican cuisine staple, and one of New Mexico's state vegetables, the New Mexico chile.
Hatch Municipal Building, June 2009
Butterfly on desert zinnia, BLM Las Uvas Mountains Wilderness Study Area, 4 miles south of Hatch
Ristras and sacks of chiles at the annual Hatch Chile Festival, August 2008