Aztec, New Mexico

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Aztec is a city in and the county seat of San Juan County, New Mexico, United States. The city population was 6,126 as of the 2022 population estimate. The Aztec Ruins National Monument is located in Aztec. The city was the site of the Aztec, New Mexico crashed saucer hoax, and it was near the site of the unrelated Project Gasbuggy, an underground nuclear detonation managed by the Atomic Energy Commission. The Aztec Museum hosts interpretive displays and preserved materials documenting each of the above. It also has materials related to the European-American settlement of the Aztec area.

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