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Cortez
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town in and county seat of Montezuma County, Colorado, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Colorado
- County
- Montezuma County seat
- Type
- Home rule municipality
- Mayor
- Rachel Medina
- Total
- 6.274 sq mi (16.249 km )
- Land
- 6.230 sq mi (16.136 km )
- Water
- 0.044 sq mi (0.113 km )
- Elevation
- 6,181 ft (1,884 m)
- Density
- 1,407/sq mi (543/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−07:00 ( MST )
- Summer dst
- UTC−06:00 ( MDT )
- Fips code
- 08-17375
- Website
- cortezco.gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county seat
- Official name
- Cortez
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Montezuma County
- Population
- 8766
- Area
- 16.163945
- Elevation
- 1887
- Time zone
- Mountain Time Zone
- Capital of
- Montezuma County
- Official website
- www.cityofcortez.com
- Image
- Main Street in Cortez, CO.JPG
- Households
- 3460
- Dialing code
- 970
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- Commons category
- Cortez, Colorado
- postal code
- 81321
- inception
- 1886-01-01
- water as percent of area
- 0.4355
- P8168
- Wars of Kappel
- water area
- 0.070393
- per capita income
- 22298
Sources (8)
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Encyclopedic overview
Cortez (/ˈkɔːrtɛz/ ) is a home-rule municipality that is the county seat of and the most populous municipality in Montezuma County, Colorado, United States. The city's population was 8,766 at the 2020 United States census.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cortez” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.