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Statue of Liberty replica at the Las Animas Courthouse in Trinidad. Las Animas County is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 census, the population was 14,555. [1] The county seat is Trinidad. [2] The county takes its name from the Mexican Spanish name of the Purgatoire River, originally called El Río de las Ánimas ...
Las Animas is located in northwest Bent County at (38.066980, -103.225937), [12] along the Arkansas U.S. Highway 50 is the main highway through the city, leading west 82 miles (132 km) to Pueblo and east 36 miles (58 km) to Lamar .
Trinidad is the home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Las Animas County, Colorado, United States. [7] The population was 8,329 as of the 2020 census. [8] Trinidad lies 21 mi (34 km) north of Raton, New Mexico, and 195 mi (314 km) south of Denver. It is on the historic Santa Fe Trail.
It empties into the John Martin Reservoir and the Arkansas River near the town of Las Animas at an elevation of 3,852 ft (1,174 m). The Purgatoire River watershed has an area of 3,449 sq mi (8,930 km 2). 96.4% of the watershed is in Colorado and the remainder is in New Mexico. Average annual precipitation ranges from 43 in (1,100 mm) in the ...
The location of the State of Colorado in the United States. This is a list of some notable ghost towns in the U.S. State of Colorado.A ghost town is a former community that now has no year-round residents or less than 1% of its peak population.
Aerial view of the Animas River coming out of Durango The Animas River between Cedar Hill, New Mexico, and the Colorado border. The Animas river is a major white water rafting attraction accounting for 8.9% of Colorado's commercial rafting market while annually generating 45,411 commercial user days and direct expenditures of $5,207,033 (2011 ...
Las Animas, Colorado, a city; Las Animas National Forest, in Colorado and New Mexico; Rancho Las Animas, a land grant in Santa Clara County, California; Uruguay
Prowers moved to West Las Animas and became a cattle rancher and politician. Boggs, who was the first sheriff of Bent County and who was elected to the territorial legislature in 1871, moved to Springer, New Mexico in 1877 after his wife's land grants were contested. After the departure of Prowers and Boggs the property was sold, becoming the ...