La Luz
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census-designated place in Otero County, New Mexico, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- New Mexico
- County
- Otero
- Total
- 10.71 sq mi (27.74 km )
- Land
- 10.68 sq mi (27.67 km )
- Water
- 0.027 sq mi (0.07 km )
- Elevation
- 4,721 ft (1,439 m)
- Density
- 147.7/sq mi (57.02/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-7 ( Mountain (MST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-6 (MDT)
- Area code
- Area code 575
- Fips code
- 35-38330
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- census-designated place in the United States
- Official name
- La Luz
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Otero County
- Population
- 1578
- Area
- 27.766854
- Elevation
- 1448
- Time zone
- Mountain Time Zone
- Image
- Our Lady of the Light Church La Luz New Mexico.jpg
- Households
- 577
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- Commons category
- La Luz, New Mexico
- postal code
- 88337
- water as percent of area
- 0.2399
- per capita income
- 21663
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Encyclopedic overview
La Luz is a census-designated place (CDP) in Otero County, New Mexico, United States. As of the 2020 census, La Luz had a population of 1,578. It is located immediately north of Alamogordo and lies in the eastern edge of the Tularosa Basin and on the western flank of the Sacramento Mountains. Until 1848, La Luz was a part of Mexico. The CDP gets its name from the Spanish word for "light".
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “La Luz” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.