El Rito 2024 Spring Arts Festival May 18-19

The New Mexico town of El Rito has been named one of America's 10 most livable cities by Time.

The honor goes to El Rito for the third year in a row, thanks in large part to the work of its residents, who live and work in an area the magazine calls "resilient, walkable, and full of character."

The town is located in the northern part of the state, near the border with Texas, and boasts an unemployment rate of 3.9%, the lowest in the state and well below the national average of 5.3%, reports the Los Alamos Daily Post.

“I think it’s really great that El Rito is on the list,” says a sociologist at the University of Texas at Austin.

“It’s kind of a unique way of looking at the world.”

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