Las Maravillas, NM

Las Maravillas is a Valencia County census-designated place in the Rio Grande valley between Los Lunas and Belen. The 2020 census counted 1,604 residents. Its daily map is split between two public-school systems: most of the CDP is in Los Lunas Public Schools, while a smaller section belongs to Belen Consolidated Schools and feeds into Belen High School. That split is a useful clue to the place itself, a spread-out community whose local connections run in two directions through the valley. The valley's school boundaries make that split visible.

Los Lunas is the larger northern service and school center, with a long agricultural history built around dairy, hay, and alfalfa fields. Belen frames the southern side with its own schools and older railroad-town identity. Las Maravillas sits between those networks, close enough to share their institutions while keeping its own CDP boundary. Las Maravillas' local scoop is a New Mexico valley community where one name covers two school districts and two neighboring centers.