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1 Chaves County. 2 Doña Ana County. 3 Grant County. 4 Hidalgo County. 5 Lea County. ... This is a list of valleys of New Mexico. Valleys are ordered alphabetically ...
Map of the United States with New Mexico highlighted. New Mexico is a state located in the Western United States.According to the 2020 United States Census, New Mexico is the 15th least-populous state with 2,117,522 inhabitants [1] but the 5th-largest by land area, spanning 121,298.15 square miles (314,160.8 km 2). [2]
Francis J. Torrance (1859–1919), the developer of the New Mexico Central Railroad 15,633: 3,345 sq mi (8,664 km 2) Union County: 059: Clayton: 1893: Parts of Colfax County, Mora County and San Miguel County. Named for the "union" of the three counties which donated land to form the new county 3,964: 3,830 sq mi (9,920 km 2) Valencia County ...
The state is divided into 33 counties and 106 municipalities, which include cities, towns, villages, and a consolidated city-county, Los Alamos. Only two cities have at least 100,000 residents: Albuquerque and Las Cruces, whose respective metropolitan areas together account for the majority of New Mexico's population.
The distinct northwestern New Mexico Tularosa River is located in Catron County. Hydrologically, the Tularosa Basin is an endorheic basin , as no water flows out of it. The basin is closed to the north by Chupadera Mesa and to the south by the broad flat 4000-foot-elevation plain between the Franklin and Hueco Mountains , with the conventional ...
Map of the Middle Rio Grande Basin showing a section of the Rio Grande Valley (tan) before entering the Socorro Basin to the south. The entire Rio Grande Valley in New Mexico follows the Rio Grande Rift, a structural rift caused by the westward extension of the continental basement of the Western United States during the past 35 million years.
New Mexico's other major center of population is in south-central area around Las Cruces, its second-largest city and the largest city in the southern region of the state. The Las Cruces metropolitan area includes roughly 214,000 residents, but with neighboring El Paso, Texas forms a combined statistical area numbering over 1 million.
As of the 2000 census, these counties had a combined population 1,147,424 (63.1% of the state's total population). Based on a July 1, 2009 population estimate, that figure rose to 1,335,985 (66.5% of the state's total population).