Every culture has a place it considers its spiritual center. For the Lowrider world, East Los Angeles usually gets that designation — with good reason. But there's another city that has its own legitimate claim, one that predates much of the California scene and operates from a different cultural foundation entirely.
Española, New Mexico. Population around 10,000. Located in the high desert of northern New Mexico, surrounded by mountains, sitting in the Rio Grande valley at an elevation of nearly 6,000 feet. And if you ask people there, the Lowrider capital of the world.
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