Alamosa

Alamosa is a small town in , . It is noteworthy as the nearest significant town to , a similarly near neighbor of the eastern hub of a superb scenic railroad, and also because during the winter, it frequently records the lowest temperature of the day of any place in the .
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  • Type: City with 9,810 residents
  • Description: city in and county seat of Alamosa County, Colorado, United States
  • Also known as: “Alamosa, CO” and “Alamosa, Colorado”
  • Postal codes: 81101 and 81102

Places of Interest

Highlights include Alamosa County Courthouse and Husung Hardware.

Courthouse
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The , at 702 Fourth St. in Alamosa, Colorado, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. It is a U-shaped two-story complex, made up of three separate buildings joined by covered walkways, plus a fourth separate jail building.

Historic building
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is a building that was constructed in 1936 in Alamosa, Colorado with a terracotta facade and stylized ornamentation. The two-story brick building possesses the distinctive characteristics of Art Deco, a style not well represented in Alamosa County or in other small towns across the state.

Hospital
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is an acute care located in the San Luis Valley in Alamosa, . It serves southern Colorado and northern .

Alamosa

Latitude
37.4682° or 37° 28′ 6″ north
Longitude
-105.8678° or 105° 52′ 4″ west
Population
9,810
Elevation
7,543 feet (2,299 metres)
IATA airport code
ALS
United Nations Location Code
US ALS
Open location code
859PF49J+7V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151913918
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5411479
Wiki­data ID
Q1010247
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Alamosa” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ألاموسا”
  • Basque: “Alamosa”
  • Belarusian: “Аламоса”
  • Bengali: “আলামোসা”
  • Bulgarian: “Аламоза”
  • Catalan: “Alamosa”
  • Cebuano: “Alamosa”
  • Chechen: “Аламоса”
  • Chinese: “Alamosa”
  • Chinese: “阿拉莫萨”
  • Chinese: “阿拉莫薩”
  • Cornish: “Alamosa, Kolorado”
  • Cornish: “Alamosa”
  • Czech: “Alamosa”
  • Dagbani: “Alamosa”
  • Danish: “Alamosa”
  • Dutch: “Alamosa”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الاموسا”
  • Finnish: “Alamosa”
  • French: “Alamosa”
  • German: “Alamosa”
  • Gilaki: “الاموسا (کؤلؤرادؤ)”
  • Gilaki: “الاموسا”
  • Greek: “Αλαμόσα”
  • Gujarati: “એલામોસા”
  • Haitian: “Alamosa, Kolorado”
  • Haitian: “Alamosa”
  • Hebrew: “אלמוסה”
  • Hindi: “अलामोसा”
  • Hungarian: “Alamosa”
  • Indonesian: “Alamosa”
  • Irish: “Alamosa”
  • Italian: “Alamosa”
  • Japanese: “アラモーサ（コロラド州）”
  • Japanese: “アラモーサ”
  • Kannada: “ಅಲೋಮೊಸಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Alamosa”
  • Kazakh: “Аламоса”
  • Kazakh: “الاموسا”
  • Kirghiz: “Аламоса”
  • Korean: “알라모사”
  • Korean: “앨라모사”
  • Ladin: “Alamosa”
  • Latvian: “Alamosa”
  • Lithuanian: “Alamosa”
  • Malay: “Alamosa”
  • Marathi: “अलामोसा”
  • Mazanderani: “آلاموسا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Alamosa”
  • Navajo: “Tʼiistahí”
  • Newari: “एलामोजा (कोलोर्याडो)”
  • Newari: “एलामोजा, कोलोर्याडो”
  • Newari: “एलामोजा”
  • Northern Frisian: “Alamosa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Alamosa”
  • Norwegian: “Alamosa”
  • Persian: “آلاموسا، کلرادو”
  • Persian: “آلاموسا”
  • Polish: “Alamosa”
  • Portuguese: “Alamosa”
  • Russian: “Аламоса”
  • Serbian: “Аламоса”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Alamosa, Colorado”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Alamosa”
  • Sinhala: “ඇලමොසා”
  • Slovak: “Alamosa”
  • Slovenian: “Alamosa”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آلاموزا، کولورادو”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آلاموزا”
  • Spanish: “Alamosa (Colorado)”
  • Spanish: “Alamosa”
  • Swedish: “Alamosa, Colorado”
  • Swedish: “Alamosa”
  • Talysh: “Alamosa”
  • Tamil: “அலமோசா”
  • Tatar: “Аламоса”
  • Telugu: “అలమోస”
  • Thai: “อลาโมซา”
  • Turkish: “Alamosa, Colorado”
  • Turkish: “Alamosa”
  • Ukrainian: “Аламоса”
  • Urdu: “الاموسا، کولوراڈو”
  • Urdu: “الاموسا”
  • Uzbek: “Alamosa”
  • Vietnamese: “Alamosa, Colorado”
  • Vietnamese: “Alamosa”
  • Volapük: “Alamosa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Alamosa, Colorado”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Alamosa”
  • Welsh: “Alamosa, Colorado”
  • Welsh: “Alamosa”

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