New Mexico
SW New Mexico
Doña Ana County

Las Cruces

Las Cruces is a city in . The name means "the crosses" in Spanish. It is the state's second largest city, with a population of over 111,000, and is the site of New Mexico State University.
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  • Type: City with 111,000 residents
  • Description: city in and county seat of Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States
  • Also known as: “Las Cruces, New Mexico” and “Las Cruces, NM”
  • Postal codes: 88001, 88003-88006, and 88011-88013

Places of Interest

Highlights include Thomas Branigan Memorial Library and Phillips Chapel CME Church.

Library
Photo: AllenS, Public domain.
Thomas Branigan Memorial Library; often referred to as simply "Branigan", is the public library serving Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States. It is part of Las Cruces Public Libraries.

Church
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is a historic Christian Methodist Episcopal church building at 638 N. Tornillo Street in Las Cruces, New Mexico. It was built in 1912 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

Museum
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is a museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mesilla Park.

Hamlet
is a neighborhood located on the south side of Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States. Residents of founded the community through a land company in 1887, shortly after Las Cruces became the county seat of .

Las Cruces

Latitude
32.314° or 32° 18′ 51″ north
Longitude
-106.7798° or 106° 46′ 47″ west
Population
111,000
Elevation
3,907 feet (1,191 metres)
IATA airport code
LRU
United Nations Location Code
US LRU
Open location code
854M867C+J3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151934445
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5475352
Wiki­data ID
Q33264
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Las Cruces” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Las Cruces, New Mexico”
  • Albanian: “Las Cruces”
  • Arabic: “لاس كروسيس”
  • Aragonese: “Las Cruces”
  • Armenian: “Լաս Կրուսես”
  • Asturian: “Las Cruces, New Mexico”
  • Asturian: “Las Cruces, Nuevo México”
  • Asturian: “Las Cruces”
  • Basque: “Las Cruces”
  • Belarusian: “Лас-Крусес”
  • Breton: “Las Cruces”
  • Bulgarian: “Лас Крусес”
  • Catalan: “Las Cruces”
  • Cebuano: “Las Cruces, New Mexico”
  • Cebuano: “Las Cruces”
  • Central Kurdish: “لاس کرووزێس”
  • Chechen: “Лас-Крусес”
  • Chinese: “Las Cruces”
  • Chinese: “拉斯克鲁塞斯”
  • Cornish: “Las Cruces, Meksiko Nowydh”
  • Cornish: “Las Cruces”
  • Croatian: “Las Cruces, Novi Meksiko”
  • Croatian: “Las Cruces”
  • Czech: “Las Cruces”
  • Dagbani: “Las Cruces”
  • Danish: “Las Cruces”
  • Dutch: “Las Cruces”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لاس كروسيس”
  • Esperanto: “La Krucoj”
  • Esperanto: “Las Cruces”
  • Finnish: “Las Cruces”
  • French: “Las Cruces”
  • German: “La Mesilla”
  • German: “Las Cruces”
  • Gilaki: “لاس کرۊسس”
  • Greek: “Λας Κρούσες, Νέο Μεξικό”
  • Greek: “Λας Κρούσες”
  • Hebrew: “לאס קרוסס”
  • Hungarian: “Las Cruces”
  • Interlingua: “Las Cruces”
  • Irish: “Las Cruces, Nua-Mheicsiceo”
  • Irish: “Las Cruces”
  • Italian: “Las Cruces”
  • Japanese: “ラース・クルーシス”
  • Japanese: “ラス・クルーセス”
  • Japanese: “ラスクルーセス”
  • Kazakh: “Лас Крюсэс”
  • Kirghiz: “Лас Крюсэс”
  • Korean: “라스크루시스”
  • Ladin: “Las Cruces”
  • Ladino: “Las Cruces”
  • Latin: “Cruces”
  • Latvian: “Laskrusesa”
  • Lithuanian: “Las Krusesas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Las Cruces”
  • Malayalam: “ലാസ് ക്രൂസസ്”
  • Marathi: “लास क्रुसेस”
  • Mazanderani: “لاس کروسس (نیومکزیکو)”
  • Mazanderani: “لاس کروسس”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Las Cruces”
  • Navajo: “Tsé Deeshzha”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Las Cruces, New Mexico”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Las Cruces”
  • Norwegian: “Las Cruces”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Las Cruces”
  • Persian: “لاس کروسس، نیومکزیکو”
  • Persian: “لاس کروسس”
  • Piemontese: “Las Cruces”
  • Polish: “Las Cruces”
  • Portuguese: “Las Cruces”
  • Romanian: “Las Cruces, New Mexico”
  • Romanian: “Las Cruces”
  • Russian: “Лас-Крусес”
  • Scots: “Las Cruces”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Las Cruces, New Mexico”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Las Cruces”
  • Serbian: “Лас Крусис (Нови Мексико)”
  • Serbian: “Лас Крусис”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Las Cruces, New Mexico”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Las Cruces”
  • Silesian: “Las Cruces”
  • Slovak: “Las Cruces”
  • Slovenian: “Las Cruces”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لاس کروسس، نیومکزیکو”
  • Spanish: “Las Cruces (Nuevo México)”
  • Spanish: “Las Cruces”
  • Swedish: “Las Cruces, New Mexico”
  • Swedish: “Las Cruces”
  • Tamil: “லாஸ் கூருசஸ்”
  • Tamil: “லாஸ் க்ரூசெஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Лас-Крусес”
  • Turkish: “Las Cruces, New Mexico”
  • Turkish: “Las Cruces”
  • Ukrainian: “Лас-Крусес”
  • Urdu: “لاس کروسیس، نیو میکسیکو”
  • Urdu: “لاس کروسیس”
  • Venetian: “Las Cruces”
  • Vietnamese: “Las Cruces, New Mexico”
  • Vietnamese: “Las Cruces”
  • Volapük: “Las Cruces, New Mexico”
  • Volapük: “Las Cruces”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Las Cruces, New Mexico”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Las Cruces”
  • Welsh: “Las Cruces, New Mexico”
  • Welsh: “Las Cruces”
  • Western Mari: “Лас-Крусес”
  • Wu Chinese: “拉斯克鲁塞斯（新墨西哥州）”
  • Wu Chinese: “拉斯克鲁塞斯”
  • “Las Cruces”

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