Raton
Raton is a city in and the county seat of Colfax County in northeastern New Mexico, United States. The city is located just south of Raton Pass. The city is also located about 6.5 miles south of the New Mexico–Colorado border and 85 miles west of Oklahoma.- Type: Town with 6,040 residents
- Description: city in and county seat of Colfax County, New Mexico, United States
- Also known as: “Raton, New Mexico”, “Raton, NM”, “Willow Springs”, “Рэйтон”, “रतॉन, न्यू मेक्सिको”, and “レイトン”
- Postal code: 87740
Places of Interest
Highlights: Raton station and El Raton Theater.
Raton station
Railway station
Raton
- Categories: city in the United States, county seat, and locality
- Location: Colfax, Northeast New Mexico, New Mexico, Southwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
36.8979° or 36° 53′ 53″ north
Longitude
-104.4355° or 104° 26′ 8″ west
Population
6,040
Elevation
6,680 feet (2,036 metres)
IATA airport code
RTN
UN/LOCODE
US RAN
Open location code
858QVHX7+5R
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Raton” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “راتون”
- Basque: “Raton”
- Belarusian: “Рэйтан”
- Bulgarian: “Ратън”
- Catalan: “Raton”
- Cebuano: “Raton”
- Chechen: “Ратон”
- Chinese: “拉頓”
- Chinese: “拉顿”
- Croatian: “Raton, Novi Meksiko”
- Croatian: “Raton”
- Czech: “Raton”
- Dagbani: “Raton”
- Danish: “Raton”
- Dutch: “Raton”
- Egyptian Arabic: “راتون”
- French: “Raton”
- Georgian: “რატონი”
- German: “Raton”
- Gilaki: “راتن”
- Hebrew: “ראטון”
- Hungarian: “Raton”
- Irish: “Raton”
- Italian: “Raton”
- Japanese: “ラトン”
- Kazakh: “Raton”
- Kazakh: “Ратон”
- Kazakh: “راتون”
- Kirghiz: “Ратон”
- Korean: “래턴”
- Ladin: “Raton”
- Marathi: “रटॉन”
- Mazanderani: “ریتون (نیومکزیکو)”
- Mazanderani: “ریتون”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Raton”
- Navajo: “Kʼaiʼ Háálį́”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Raton”
- Norwegian: “Raton”
- Persian: “راتون”
- Persian: “ریتون، نیومکزیکو”
- Persian: “ریتون”
- Polish: “Raton”
- Portuguese: “Raton”
- Romanian: “Raton, New Mexico”
- Romanian: “Raton”
- Russian: “Ратон”
- Serbian: “Ратон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Raton, New Mexico”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Raton”
- Slovak: “Raton”
- South Azerbaijani: “ریتون، نیومکزیکو”
- Spanish: “Ratón”
- Swedish: “Raton”
- Tatar: “Ратон”
- Turkish: “Raton, New Mexico”
- Turkish: “Raton”
- Ukrainian: “Ратон”
- Urdu: “ریٹون، نیو میکسیکو”
- Urdu: “ریٹون”
- Volapük: “Raton”
- Waray (Philippines): “Raton, New Mexico”
- Waray (Philippines): “Raton”
- Welsh: “Raton, New Mexico”
- Welsh: “Raton”
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