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Las Cruces

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Las Cruces

City in southern New Mexico, USA, on the Rio Grande, north of the Mexican border; population (2000) 74,300. It is the seat of Dona Ana County, and is a processing centre for the area's crops, such as pecans, cotton, and vegetables. White Sands Missile Range, an important testing site for NASA, is nearby.

The name, meaning ‘the crosses’, commemorates a massacre of 40 travellers by Apache Indians in 1840.



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Although Juliana is gone before this story even begins, her presence informs every step sixteen-year-old Sammy Santos takes as he negotiates life in Hollywood, the ironically named barrio in Las Cruces, New Mexico, that is his home.
Benjamin Alire Saenz: Sammy & Juliana in Hollywood by Jemtegaard, Kristi Elle / The Horn Book Magazine
In the wild, yellow-naped Amazon par7vts perform duets in which a male and a female take turns calling, says Timothy Wright of New Mexico State University in Las Cruces.
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She also was deputy superintendent of instruction in Las Cruces, N.
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