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Santa Rosa New Mexico
A town, and the county seat of Guadalupe County, New Mexico. It is a small town between Albuquerque and Tucumcari, situated on the Pecos River at the intersection of I-40, Route 84 and Route 54. The town is in the llano estacado or "staked plains" of northern New Mexico.

The first European settlement in the area was Aqua Negra Chiquita, "Little Black Water" in Spanish, in 1865. The name was changed in 1890 to Santa Rosa, Spanish for "Holy Rose", referring to a chapel that Don Celso Baca, the founder of the town, built and named after either his mother Rosa or Saint Rose of Lima. The "Rosa" may also refer to the roses in the story of Our Lady of Guadalupe and is indicative of the Catholicism of the Spanish colonizers who settled in the area.

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