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Cortez (/ ˈ k ɔːr t ɛ z / ⓘ) is a home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Montezuma County, Colorado, United States. [1] The city population was 8,766 at the 2020 United States Census .
Cortez, the largest town in the area with a population of over 8000, lies outside the reservation 11.5 miles (18.5 km) east-northeast of Ute Peak. The elevation of Cortez is 6,200 feet (1,890 m) and can be considered the base elevation of the Ute Mountains.
Relief map of the U.S. State of Colorado. ... Elevation [s] Trail Coordinates [f] Electric Pass [u] 13,494 feet 4,113 m Elkhead Pass: 13,245 feet ...
The Town of Winter Park, Colorado has the highest elevation within the municipal boundaries of any town in the United States at 12,060 feet (3,676 m). The "Mile-High City" of Denver, the Colorado state capital, is only the 170th highest of the 273 Colorado municipalities. While the Town of Holly, Colorado is the lowest municipality in Colorado ...
Cortez Municipal Airport covers 622 acres (252 ha) at an elevation of 5,918 feet (1,804 m). Its one runway, 3/21, is 7,205 by 100 feet (2,196 x 30 m) asphalt. [1]In 2019 the airport had 9,834 aircraft operations, average 27 per day: 86% general aviation, 13% air taxi, and <1% military. 26 aircraft were then based at the airport: 85% single-engine, 1% multi-engine, and <1% helicopter. [1]
Montezuma County has been settled since approximately AD 600, and had an estimated population of approximately 100,000, four times its current population, in the 12th century. However, a series of events caused virtually all permanent settlements to be abandoned between 1200 and 1300, and the area was contested between nomadic Ute and Navajo ...
The wilderness area, varying from 5,900 to 6,000 feet (1,798 to 1,829 m) in elevation, consists of three canyons with piñon-juniper woodlands and riparian and sagebrush ecosystems. Cross Canyon, located south of Cahone Canyon, about 14 mi (23 km) southwest of the town of Cahone, Colorado , is about 12,721 acres (5,148 ha), 1,008 acres (408 ha ...
US 160 was diverted southwesterly from Cortez to follow its present route past the Four Corners into Arizona, absorbing the route numbered U.S. Highway 164. [4] In 2021, the portion of the highway between Walsenburg and the highway's junction with Colorado State Highway 12 was designated a National Scenic Byway.