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La Plata

La Plata County is a county located in the U.S. state of . As of the 2020 census, the population was 55,638. The county seat is . The county was named for the La Plata River and the La Plata Mountains.
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  • Type: County with 51,300 residents
  • Description: county in Colorado, United States
  • Also known as: “La Plata County”, “La Plata County, CO”, and “La Plata County, Colorado”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Fort Lewis College.

College
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is a public liberal arts college in , and the only four-year and graduate studies institution in the .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Durango.

is the home rule city that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of La Plata County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 19,071 at the 2020 United States census. is the home of .

La Plata

Latitude
37.289° or 37° 17′ 20″ north
Longitude
-107.8539° or 107° 51′ 14″ west
Population
51,300
Elevation
7,057 feet (2,151 metres)
Open location code
859J74QW+HC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316945051
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
5427717
Wiki­data ID
Q128096
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“La Plata” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “La Plata County”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة لا بلاتا”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعه لا بلاتا، كولورادو”
  • Armenian: “Լա Պլատա շրջան”
  • Basque: “La Plata konderria”
  • Bavarian: “La Plata County, Colorado”
  • Bavarian: “La Plata County”
  • Belarusian: “Ла-Плата (акруга)”
  • Belarusian: “Ла-Плата”
  • Bishnupriya: “লা প্লাটা কাউন্টি, কলোরাডো”
  • Bishnupriya: “লা প্লাটা কাউন্টি”
  • Bulgarian: “Ла Плата”
  • Catalan: “comtat de La Plata”
  • Cebuano: “La Plata County”
  • Chechen: “Ла-Плата (гуо, Колорадо)”
  • Chechen: “Ла-Плата”
  • Chinese: “La Plata Kūn”
  • Chinese: “拉普拉塔县”
  • Chinese: “拉普拉塔縣”
  • Czech: “La Plata County”
  • Dutch: “La Plata County”
  • Esperanto: “kantono La Plata”
  • Esperanto: “La Plata County”
  • Estonian: “La Plata maakond”
  • Finnish: “La Platan piirikunta”
  • French: “comté de La Plata”
  • French: “Comté de La Plata”
  • French: “La Plata County”
  • German: “La Plata County”
  • Gilaki: “لا پلاتا شأرستان (کؤلؤرادؤ)”
  • Gilaki: “لا پلاتا شأرستان”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז לה פלאטה”
  • Hungarian: “La Plata megye”
  • Irish: “Contae La Plata, Colorado”
  • Irish: “Contae La Plata”
  • Italian: “contea di La Plata”
  • Italian: “Contea di La Plata”
  • Italian: “La Plata County”
  • Japanese: “ラ・プラタ郡”
  • Japanese: “ラプラタ郡”
  • Korean: “라플라타군”
  • Low German: “La Plata County”
  • Marathi: “ला प्लाटा काउंटी, कॉलोराडो”
  • Marathi: “ला प्लाटा काउंटी”
  • Mazanderani: “لا پلاتا شهرستان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “La Plata Gông”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “La Plata Kūn”
  • Navajo: “Dibé Nitsaa Áłtsʼíísí Bił Hahoodzo”
  • Navajo: “Dibé Ntsaa Áłtsʼíísí Bił Hahoodzo”
  • Northern Frisian: “La Plata County”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “La Plata County”
  • Norwegian: “La Plata County”
  • Ossetian: “Ла-Платæ (зылд)”
  • Ossetian: “Ла-Платæ”
  • Persian: “شهرستان لا پلاتا، کلرادو”
  • Persian: “شهرستان لا پلاتا”
  • Polish: “Hrabstwo La Plata”
  • Portuguese: “condado de La Plata”
  • Portuguese: “Condado de La Plata”
  • Portuguese: “La Plata County”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul La Plata, Colorado”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul La Plata”
  • Russian: “Ла-Плата”
  • Sardinian: “contea de La Plata”
  • Serbian: “Округ Ла Плата”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “La Plata County, Colorado”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “La Plata County”
  • Slovenian: “La Plata County”
  • Slovenian: “Okrožje La Plata”
  • Spanish: “condado de La Plata”
  • Spanish: “Condado de La Plata”
  • Spanish: “La Plata County”
  • Swedish: “La Plata County”
  • Tatar: “Ла-Плата (округ, Колорадо)”
  • Tatar: “Ла-Плата”
  • Turkish: “La Plata County, CO”
  • Turkish: “La Plata County, Colo.”
  • Turkish: “La Plata County, Colorado”
  • Turkish: “La Plata County”
  • Turkish: “La Plata ilçesi, CO”
  • Turkish: “La Plata ilçesi, Colo.”
  • Turkish: “La Plata ilçesi, Colorado”
  • Turkish: “La Plata ilçesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Ла-Плата”
  • Urdu: “لا پلاٹا کاؤنٹی، کولوراڈو”
  • Urdu: “لا پلاٹا کاؤنٹی”
  • Venetian: “contea de La Plata”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận La Plata, Colorado”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận La Plata”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han La Plata, Colorado”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han La Plata”
  • Welsh: “La Plata County, Colorado”
  • Welsh: “La Plata County”
  • Western Panjabi: “لا پلاٹا کاؤنٹی”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “La Plata”. Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.