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.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: City with 7,080 residents
- Description: city in and county seat of Otero County, Colorado, United States
- Also known as: “La Junta (Colorado)”, “La Junta, CO”, “La Junta, Colorado”, “Lajunta”, “Otero”, “Ля-Хунта”, “ला जुन्टा (कोलोर्याडो)”, and “ラ・ハンタ”
- Postal code: 81050
Places of Interest
Highlights: Koshare Indian Museum and Dancers and La Junta station.
Koshare Indian Museum and Dancers
Museum
La Junta station
Railway station
Places in the Area
Nearby places include North La Junta and La Junta Gardens.
North La Junta
Hamlet
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″ north
Longitude
-103.5438° or 103° 32′ 38″ west
Population
7,080
Elevation
4,078 feet (1,243 metres)
UN/LOCODE
US LJH
Open location code
859RXFP4+2F
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“La Junta” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “لا جونتا”
- Asturian: “La Junta”
- Basque: “La Junta”
- Belarusian: “Ля Хунта”
- Bulgarian: “Ла Хунта”
- Catalan: “La Junta”
- Cebuano: “La Junta”
- Chechen: “Ла-Хунта”
- Chinese: “拉洪塔”
- Danish: “La Junta”
- Dutch: “La Junta”
- Egyptian Arabic: “لا جونتا”
- Finnish: “La Junta”
- French: “La Junta”
- Georgian: “ლა-ხუნტა”
- German: “La Junta”
- Gilaki: “لا جونتا (کؤلؤرادؤ)”
- Gilaki: “لا جونتا”
- Haitian: “La Junta, Kolorado”
- Haitian: “La Junta”
- Hebrew: “לה חונטה”
- Hungarian: “La Junta”
- Irish: “La Junta”
- Italian: “La Junta”
- Japanese: “ラ・フンタ”
- Kazakh: “Ла Хунта”
- Kirghiz: “Ла Хунта”
- Korean: “라훈타”
- Ladin: “La Junta”
- Malagasy: “La Junta, Colorado”
- Malagasy: “La Junta”
- Marathi: “ला हंटा”
- Mazanderani: “لا خونتا”
- Min Nan Chinese: “La Junta”
- Navajo: “Ahiʼdiitiiní”
- Newari: “ला जुन्टा, कोलोर्याडो”
- Newari: “ला जुन्टा”
- Northern Frisian: “La Junta”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “La Junta”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “La Junta”
- Norwegian: “La Junta”
- Persian: “لا خونتا، کلرادو”
- Persian: “لا خونتا”
- Polish: “La Junta”
- Portuguese: “La Junta”
- Russian: “Ла Джанта”
- Russian: “Ла-Хунта”
- Serbian: “Ла Ханта”
- Serbian: “Ла Хуента”
- Serbo-Croatian: “La Junta, Colorado”
- Serbo-Croatian: “La Junta”
- South Azerbaijani: “لا جونتا، کولورادو”
- South Azerbaijani: “لا جونتا”
- Spanish: “La Junta”
- Swedish: “La Junta, Colorado”
- Swedish: “La Junta”
- Talysh: “La Xunta”
- Tatar: “Ла-Хунта”
- Tibetan: “ལ་ཇུན་ཏ།”
- Turkish: “La Junta, Colorado”
- Turkish: “La Junta”
- Ukrainian: “Ла-Хунта”
- Urdu: “لا جنتا، کولوراڈو”
- Urdu: “لا جنتا”
- Uzbek: “La Junta”
- Vietnamese: “La Junta, Colorado”
- Vietnamese: “La Junta”
- Volapük: “La Junta”
- Waray (Philippines): “La Junta, Colorado”
- Waray (Philippines): “La Junta”
- Welsh: “La Junta, Colorado”
- Welsh: “La Junta”
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Places to explore: Ormega and La Junta Village.
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