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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 7,080 residents
- Description: city in and county seat of Otero County, Colorado, United States
- Also known as: “La Junta, CO”, “La Junta, Colorado”, “Lajunta”, and “Otero”
- Postal code: 81050
Places of Interest
Highlights include Koshare Indian Museum and Dancers and La Junta station.
Koshare Indian Museum and Dancers
Museum
Photo: Ammodramus, CC0.
The Koshare Indian Museum is an art and scouting museum in La Junta, Colorado. The building, located on the Otero Junior College campus, is a tri-level museum with an attached kiva that is built with the largest self-supporting log roof in the world.
La Junta station
Railway station
Photo: LHOON, CC BY-SA 2.0.
La Junta station is a train station in La Junta, Colorado served by Amtrak. Amtrak's Southwest Chief trains 3 & 4 stop here for 10–15 minutes. Westbound trains are scheduled to arrive at 8:15 AM and depart at 8:30 AM, while the eastbound trains arrive at 7:30 PM and depart at 7:41 PM.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include North La Junta and La Junta Gardens.
North La Junta
Hamlet
Photo: Ammodramus, CC0.
North La Junta is a census-designated place in Otero County, Colorado, United States. The population of the North La Junta CDP was 482 at the United States Census 2020. The La Junta post office serves the area.
La Junta Gardens
Hamlet
Photo: Jeffrey Beall, CC BY 4.0.
La Junta Gardens is a Census-designated place in and governed by Otero County, Colorado, United States. The population of the La Junta Gardens CDP was 123 at the United States Census 2020. The La Junta post office serves the area.
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
4,078 feet (1,243 metres)United Nations Location Code
US LJHOpen location code
859RXFP4+2FOpenStreetMap ID
node 151791522OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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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”
- Belarusian: “Ля-Хунта”
- Bulgarian: “Ла Хунта”
- Catalan: “La Junta”
- Cebuano: “La Junta”
- Chechen: “Ла-Хунта”
- Chinese: “La Junta”
- 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・ハンタ”
- 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, 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-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 (Colorado)”
- 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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