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Las Animas
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city in Bent County, Colorado, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Colorado
- County
- Bent
- Incorporated
- May 15, 1886
- Mayor
- Jim Collins
- Total
- 1.67 sq mi (4.33 km )
- Land
- 1.63 sq mi (4.21 km )
- Water
- 0.046 sq mi (0.12 km )
- Elevation
- 3,898 ft (1,188 m)
- Density
- 1,400/sq mi (550/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−7 ( MST )
- Summer dst
- UTC−6 (MDT)
- Fips code
- 08-43660
- Website
- City website
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- Las Animas
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Bent County
- Population
- 2300
- Area
- 4.314463
- Elevation
- 1188
- Time zone
- Mountain Time Zone
- Capital of
- Bent County
- Official website
- www.cityoflasanimas.com
- Image
- Las Animas, CO, City Hall IMG 5734.JPG
- Households
- 1099
- Dialing code
- 719
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- postal code
- 81054
- Commons category
- Las Animas, Colorado
- different from
- Las Animas County
- water as percent of area
- 2.7529
- water area
- 0.118772
- per capita income
- 18816
Sources (10)
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Encyclopedic overview
Las Animas is the statutory city that is the county seat of, the most populous community in, and the only incorporated municipality in Bent County, Colorado, United States. The city's population was 2,300 at the 2020 United States census. Las Animas is located on the Arkansas River, just west of its confluence with the Purgatoire River (or "Purgatory River"), in southeast Colorado east of Pueblo, near the historic Bent's Fort.
Etymology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Las Animas” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.