Vado is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States.

Founded in 1920 by Francis “Frank” Marion Boyer and his wife Ella Louise, after the previous freedom colony they founded, Blackdom, New Mexico, became a ghost town due to water well issues.

[6] Vado is located in southeastern Doña Ana County in the Mesilla Valley, on the east side of the Rio Grande.

Interstate 10 forms the eastern edge of the CDP, with access from Exit 155.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 3.0 square miles (7.7 km2), all land.