Las Cruces, New Mexico

Las Cruces is a city located in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 74,267, making the city the second largest in the state. Las Cruces is the center of an agricultural region irrigated by the Rio Grande, which flows through the city. Las Cruces is also the home of New Mexico State University. NMSU is New Mexico's only land-grant institution, citing more than 23,000 graduate and undergraduate students on the main campus and four branch campuses. The Organ Mountains are to the east of the city. Las Cruces has a city managermayor-council form of government. It is the county seat of Doña Ana County{{GR|6}}.

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Doña Ana County, New Mexico - United States - 2000 - Rio Grande - New Mexico State University - Organ Mountains - Mayor-council - County seat

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Las Cruces is also home to the annual Whole Enchilada Fiesta. The fiesta's main attraction is the creation of a very large(on average 10 feet in diameter) flat red enchilada by local restaurant owner Roberto Estrada. Besides this, the fiesta offers live music, rides, food vendors, and other attractions typical of fairs. In fact, the Southern New Mexico State Fair is usually held only a few days after the end of the Whole Enchilada Fiesta. The fiesta's mascot, "Twefie"(taken from the abbreviation of the fiesta's name) is a large red chile pepper wearing a sombrero. At the 2004 event, the Guinness Book of Records confirmed that Estrada had made the world's largest flat enchilada(there was a record for world's longest rolled enchilada, but not for world's largest flat enchilada).

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Whole Enchilada Fiesta - Enchilada - Fairs - Southern New Mexico State Fair - Chile pepper - Sombrero - Guinness Book of Records

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