City of the Sun
City of the Sun is an intentional community and census-designated place in Luna County, New Mexico, United States. Its population was 33 as of the 2020 census.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality with 31 residents
- Description: human settlement in Luna County, New Mexico, United States of America
- Also known as: “City of the Sun, New Mexico” and “City of the Sun, NM”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Columbus Municipal Airport.
Columbus Municipal Airport
Aerodrome
Columbus Municipal Airport 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. Columbus Municipal Airport is situated 2 miles southeast of City of the Sun.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Columbus and Puerto Palomas.
Columbus
Town
Photo: Rodan44, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Columbus is an incorporated village in Luna County, 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.
Puerto Palomas
Town
Photo: ricardohc72, CC BY 3.0.
Puerto Palomas 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 Ascensión, in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. It borders the village of Columbus, New Mexico, in the United States. Puerto Palomas is situated 5 miles south of City of the Sun.
City of the Sun
- Categories: census-designated place in the United States and intentional community
- Location: Luna, New Mexico, Southwest, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chechen to Ukrainian—“City of the Sun” goes by many names.
- Chechen: “Сити-оф-те-Сан”
- Chinese: “森城 (新墨西哥州)”
- Chinese: “森城”
- French: “City of the Sun”
- German: “City of the Sun”
- Gilaki: “سيتي آو د سان”
- Irish: “City of the Sun”
- Italian: “City of the Sun”
- Japanese: “シティ・オブ・サン”
- Ladin: “City of the Sun”
- Persian: “سیتی آف د سان، نیومکزیکو”
- Persian: “سیتی آف د سان”
- Polish: “City of the Sun”
- Serbian: “Сити оф Сан”
- Serbo-Croatian: “City of the Sun, New Mexico”
- Serbo-Croatian: “City of the Sun”
- South Azerbaijani: “سیتی آف د سان، نیومکزیکو”
- Spanish: “City of the Sun”
- Tatar: “Сити-оф-те-Сан”
- Ukrainian: “Сіті-оф-те-Сан”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Pancho Villas Raid Historical Marker and Aterrizaje.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Columbus Village Library and Columbus Historical Museum.
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