Southwest
New Mexico
Luna

Columbus

Columbus is an incorporated village in , New Mexico, United States, about 3 miles north of the Mexican border. It is considered a place of historical interest, as the scene of a 1916 attack by Mexican general Francisco "Pancho" Villa that caused the United States to send 10,000 troops there in the Mexican Expedition.
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  • Type: Town with 1,660 residents
  • Description: village in Luna County, New Mexico, United States
  • Also known as: “Christopher Columbus”, “Colombus”, “Columbus, New Mexico”, and “Columbus, NM”
  • Postal code: 88029
  • Neighbors:
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest

Highlights include Columbus Municipal Airport.

Aerodrome
is an abandoned airport in New Mexico. Its origins date to 1916 when it was used by the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps as a military airfield during the Pancho Villa Expedition.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Puerto Palomas.

Town
Photo: ricardohc72, CC BY 3.0.
de Villa, also known simply as Palomas or as General Rodrigo M. Quevedo, is a small town of 4,688 people in the municipality of , in the state of . It borders the village of Columbus, New Mexico, in the . is situated 4 miles south of Columbus.

Columbus

Latitude
31.8328° or 31° 49′ 58″ north
Longitude
-107.64023° or 107° 38′ 25″ west
Population
1,660
Elevation
4,068 feet (1,240 metres)
IATA airport code
CUS
United Nations Location Code
US CUS
Open location code
853JR9M5+4W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 54220598
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Geo­Names ID
5462683
Wiki­data ID
Q1112742
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Columbus” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Columbus, Nieu-Meksiko”
  • Afrikaans: “Columbus”
  • Arabic: “كولومبوس”
  • Basque: “Columbus”
  • Catalan: “Columbus”
  • Cebuano: “Columbus (lungsod sa Estados Unidos, New Mexico)”
  • Cebuano: “Columbus, New Mexico”
  • Cebuano: “Columbus”
  • Chinese: “Columbus”
  • Chinese: “哥伦布”
  • Chinese: “哥倫布 (新墨西哥州)”
  • Croatian: “Columbus, Novi Meksiko”
  • Croatian: “Columbus”
  • Dutch: “Columbus”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بلده كولومبوس, الولايات المتحدة”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كولومبوس”
  • French: “Columbus”
  • German: “Columbus”
  • Gilaki: “کؤلؤمبؤس”
  • Hungarian: “Columbus”
  • Italian: “Columbus”
  • Japanese: “コロンバス”
  • Ladin: “Columbus”
  • Ligurian: “Columbus, Neuvo Mescico”
  • Ligurian: “Columbus”
  • Mazanderani: “کلمبوس (نیومکزیکو)”
  • Mazanderani: “کلمبوس”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Columbus”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Columbus”
  • Norwegian: “Columbus”
  • Persian: “کلمبوس، نیومکزیکو”
  • Persian: “کلمبوس”
  • Portuguese: “Columbus”
  • Russian: “Колумбус”
  • Serbian: “Коламбус (Нови Мексико)”
  • Serbian: “Коламбус”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Columbus, New Mexico”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Columbus”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کلمبوس، نیومکزیکو”
  • Spanish: “Columbus (Nuevo México)”
  • Spanish: “Columbus”
  • Ukrainian: “Коламбус”
  • Urdu: “کولمبس، نیو میکسیکو”
  • Urdu: “کولمبس”
  • Volapük: “Columbus (NM)”
  • Volapük: “Columbus, New Mexico”
  • Volapük: “Columbus, NM”
  • Volapük: “Columbus”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Columbus, New Mexico”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Columbus”
  • Welsh: “Columbus, New Mexico”
  • Welsh: “Columbus”
  • “Columbus”

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Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Pancho Villas Raid Historical Marker and Mimbres.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include First Methodist Episcopal Church and Columbus Village Library.

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