La Junta
La Junta is a town in the Eastern Plains of Colorado. It is notable to travelers as the nearest town to Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site, preserving an historically important locale along the Santa Fe Trail. Bent's Old Fort…Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Town with 7,080 residents
- Description: city in and county seat of Otero County, Colorado, United States
- Postal code: 81050
Notable Places in the Area
Koshare Indian Museum and Dancers
Photo: Nickeyrc, Public domain.
The Koshare Indian Museum is an art and scouting museum in La Junta, Colorado.
La Junta station
Photo: LHOON, CC BY-SA 2.0.
La Junta station is a train station in La Junta, Colorado served by Amtrak.
Localities in the Area
North La Junta
Photo: Ammodramus, CC0.
North La Junta is a census-designated place in and governed by Otero County, Colorado, United States.
La Junta Gardens
Photo: Jeffrey Beall, CC BY 4.0.
La Junta Gardens is a Census-designated place in and governed by Otero County, Colorado, United States.
La Junta
- Categories: city in the United States, county seat and locality
- Location: Otero, Eastern Plains, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.985° or 37° 59' 6" northLongitude
-103.5438° or 103° 32' 38" westPopulation
7,080Elevation
1,243 metres (4,078 feet)United Nations Location Code
US LJHOpen Location Code
859RXFP4+2FOpenStreetMap ID
node 151791522OpenStreetMap Feature
place=townGeoNames ID
5427705Wikidata ID
Q1012444La Junta Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: La Junta, Colorado
- Arabic: لا جونتا
- Asturian: La Junta
- Basque: La Junta (Colorado)
- Basque: La Junta
- Belarusian: Ля-Хунта
- Belarusian: Ля Хунта
- Bulgarian: Ла Хунта
- Catalan: La Junta
- Cebuano: La Junta
- Chechen: Ла-Хунта (Колорадо)
- Chechen: Ла-Хунта
- Chinese: La Junta
- Chinese: 拉洪塔
- Danish: La Junta
- Dutch: La Junta
- Egyptian Arabic: لا جونتا
- English: La Junta, CO
- English: La Junta, Colorado
- Finnish: La Junta
- French: La Junta
- Georgian: ლა-ხუნტა
- German: La Junta
- Haitian: La Junta, Kolorado
- Haitian: La Junta
- Hebrew: לה חונטה
- Hungarian: La Junta
- Irish: La Junta
- Italian: La Junta
- Japanese: ラ・ハンタ
- Japanese: ラ・フンタ
- Kazakh: Ла Хунта
- Kirghiz: Ла Хунта
- Korean: 라훈타
- Ladin: La Junta (Colorado)
- Ladin: La Junta
- Malagasy: La Junta, Colorado
- Malagasy: La Junta
- Marathi: ला हंटा, कॉलोराडो
- Marathi: ला हंटा
- Min Nan Chinese: La Junta
- Navajo: Ahiʼdiitiiní
- Nepali: ला जुन्टा, कोलोर्याडो
- Newari: ला जुन्टा (कोलोर्याडो)
- Newari: ला जुन्टा, कोलोर्याडो
- Newari: ला जुन्टा
- Northern Frisian: La Junta (Colorado)
- Northern Frisian: La Junta
- Norwegian: La Junta
- Norwegian Bokmål: La Junta
- Norwegian Nynorsk: La Junta
- Persian: لا خونتا، کلرادو
- Polish: La Junta
- Portuguese: La Junta
- Russian: Ла-Хунта
- Serbian: Ла Ханта
- Serbian: Ла Хуента
- Serbo-Croatian: La Junta, Colorado
- Serbo-Croatian: La Junta
- South Azerbaijani: لا جونتا، کولورادو
- Spanish: La Junta
- Spanish: La Junta (Colorado)
- Swedish: La Junta, Colorado
- Swedish: La Junta
- Tatar: Ла-Хунта (Колорадо)
- Tatar: Ла-Хунта
- Tibetan: ལ་ཇུན་ཏ།
- Turkish: La Junta, Colorado
- Turkish: La Junta
- Ukrainian: Ла-Хунта
- Urdu: لا جنتا، کولوراڈو
- Uzbek: La Junta, Colorado
- Uzbek: La Junta
- Vietnamese: La Junta
- Volapük: La Junta
- Waray (Philippines): La Junta
- Welsh: La Junta, Colorado
- Lajunta
- Otero
Other Places Named La Junta
Localities in the Area
- OrmegaHamlet, 4½ km southwest
- La Junta VillageHamlet, 6 km north
- CasaHamlet, 7 km northeast
- SwinkVillage, 8 km northwest
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