title: Las Tusas, New Mexico
text: # Las Tusas, New Mexico
  
  Las Tusas is a census-designated place (CDP) in Cibola County, New Mexico, United States. At the 2010 census the CDP was known as Bluewater Acres and had a population of 206.
  
  ## Geography
  
  Las Tusas is located in northwestern Cibola County, near the southern tip of Bluewater Lake, a reservoir on Bluewater Creek north of Salitre Mesa. New Mexico State Road 612 (Bluewater Road) leads north from the community 12 miles (19 km) to Thoreau and Interstate 40. A Forest Service road leads south from Bluewater Acres through Cibola National Forest 25 miles (40 km) to NM 53 near the Continental Divide.
  
  According to the United States Census Bureau, the Las Tusas CDP has a total area of 1.3 square miles (3.3 $km^2),$ all land.
  
  