Ouray
Ouray is a small town in Southwestern Colorado, magnificently situated in the San Juan Mountains and nicknamed "The Switzerland of America" for its scenery and outdoor recreational opportunities.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Bede735, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Bede735, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 896 residents
- Description: home rule municipality and county seat of Ouray County, Colorado, United States
- Also known as: “Ouray, CO”, “Ouray, Colorado”, “Uncompahgre”, and “Uncompahgre City”
- Postal code: 81427
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Thistledown.
Thistledown
Hamlet
Thistledown is an unincorporated community in Ouray County, Colorado, United States. The community is located southwest of Ouray on Camp Bird Road between Ouray and Camp Bird. Thistledown is situated 2½ miles southwest of Ouray.
Ouray
- Categories: city in the United States, county seat, and locality
- Location: Ouray, Southwestern Colorado, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.0228° or 38° 1′ 22″ northLongitude
-107.6714° or 107° 40′ 17″ westPopulation
896Elevation
7,792 feet (2,375 metres)United Nations Location Code
US OUROpen location code
85CJ28FH+4COpenStreetMap ID
node 151877085OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Ouray” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أوراي”
- Basque: “Ouray”
- Bulgarian: “Юрей”
- Catalan: “Ouray”
- Cebuano: “Ouray”
- Chechen: “Юрей”
- Chinese: “Ouray”
- Chinese: “乌雷”
- Chinese: “烏雷”
- Cornish: “Ouray, Kolorado”
- Cornish: “Ouray”
- Czech: “Ouray”
- Dagbani: “Ouray”
- Danish: “Ouray”
- Dutch: “Ouray”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اوراى”
- Estonian: “Ouray”
- Finnish: “Ouray”
- French: “Ouray”
- German: “Ouray”
- Gilaki: “اورای (کؤلؤرادؤ)”
- Gilaki: “اورای”
- Haitian: “Ouray, Kolorado”
- Haitian: “Ouray”
- Hebrew: “יוראי”
- Hungarian: “Ouray”
- Irish: “Ouray”
- Italian: “Ouray”
- Japanese: “ユアレイ”
- Kazakh: “Owréý”
- Kazakh: “Оурэй”
- Kazakh: “وۋرەي”
- Kirghiz: “Оурэй”
- Korean: “유레이”
- Ladin: “Ouray”
- Malagasy: “Ouray, Colorado”
- Malagasy: “Ouray”
- Marathi: “यूरे”
- Mazanderani: “اورای”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ouray”
- Navajo: “Tó Łichíʼí Háálį́”
- Newari: “औरे (कोलोर्याडो)”
- Newari: “औरे, कोलोर्याडो”
- Newari: “औरे”
- Northern Frisian: “Ouray”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ouray”
- Norwegian: “Ouray”
- Persian: “اورای، کلرادو”
- Persian: “اورای”
- Polish: “Ouray”
- Portuguese: “Ouray”
- Russian: “Урей (Колорадо)”
- Russian: “Урей”
- Serbian: “Јереј”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ouray, Colorado”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ouray”
- Silesian: “Ouray”
- Slovak: “Ouray”
- Slovenian: “Ouray”
- South Azerbaijani: “ورای، کولورادو”
- South Azerbaijani: “ورای”
- Spanish: “Ouray”
- Swedish: “Ouray, Colorado”
- Swedish: “Ouray”
- Tatar: “Юрей”
- Ukrainian: “Юрей”
- Uzbek: “Ouray”
- Volapük: “Ouray”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ouray, Colorado”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ouray”
- Welsh: “Ouray, Colorado”
- Welsh: “Ouray”
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