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Columbus, New Mexico
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Columbus, New Mexico
Columbus
is a village in
Luna County
,
New Mexico
,
United States
, about three miles north of the Mexican border. It is considered a place of historical interest, as the scene of the attack in 1916 by
Mexican
revolutionary leader
Francisco "Pancho" Villa
, that caused America to send 10,000 troops there in the
Punitive Mexican Expedition
. The population was 1,765 at the
2000 census
.
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