Walsenburg
Walsenburg is the county seat of Huerfano County, Colorado, USA. Once called "La Plaza de los Leones," Walsenburg sits at an altitude of 6,171 feet above sea level on the geological border between Colorado's Eastern Plains to the east and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains to the west.
- Type: Town with 3,940 residents
- Description: city in and county seat of Huerfano County, Colorado, United States
- Also known as: “La Plaza de los Leones”, “Tourist City”, “Walsen”, “Walsenburg (Colorado)”, “Walsenburg, CO”, “Walsenburg, Colorado”, and “वालसेनबर्ग (कोलोर्याडो)”
- Postal code: 81089
Places of Interest
Highlights: Huerfano County Courthouse and Jail.
Huerfano County Courthouse and Jail
Courthouse
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Northlands, Walsenburg, Colorado and Pictou.
Northlands, Walsenburg, Colorado
Locality
Walsenburg
- Categories: city in the United States, county seat, and locality
- Location: Huerfano, South Central Colorado, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.6235° or 37° 37′ 25″ north
Longitude
-104.781° or 104° 46′ 52″ west
Population
3,940
Elevation
6,171 feet (1,881 metres)
Open location code
859QJ6F9+CJ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Walsenburg” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “والسنبورغ”
- Basque: “Walsenburg”
- Bulgarian: “Уолсънбърг”
- Catalan: “Walsenburg”
- Cebuano: “Walsenburg”
- Chechen: “Волсенбург”
- Chinese: “沃尔森堡”
- Chinese: “沃爾森堡”
- Czech: “Walsenburg”
- Dagbani: “Walsenburg”
- Danish: “Walsenburg”
- Dutch: “Walsenburg”
- Egyptian Arabic: “والسنبورج”
- Finnish: “Walsenburg”
- French: “Walsenburg”
- German: “Walsenburg”
- Gilaki: “والسبرگ (کؤلؤرادؤ)”
- Gilaki: “والسبرگ”
- Haitian: “Walsenburg, Kolorado”
- Haitian: “Walsenburg”
- Hungarian: “Walsenburg”
- Irish: “Walsenburg”
- Italian: “Walsenburg”
- Kazakh: “Valʹsenbwrg”
- Kazakh: “Вальсенбург”
- Kazakh: “ۆالسەنبۋرگ”
- Kirghiz: “Вальсенбург”
- Ladin: “Walsenburg”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Walsenburg”
- Malagasy: “Walsenburg, Colorado”
- Malagasy: “Walsenburg”
- Marathi: “वॉल्सेनबर्ग”
- Mazanderani: “والسنبورگ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Walsenburg”
- Navajo: “Adeetó”
- Newari: “वालसेनबर्ग, कोलोर्याडो”
- Newari: “वालसेनबर्ग”
- Northern Frisian: “Walsenburg”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Walsenburg”
- Norwegian: “Walsenburg”
- Persian: “والسنبورگ، کلرادو”
- Persian: “والسنبورگ”
- Polish: “Walsenburg”
- Portuguese: “Walsenburg”
- Russian: “Валсенбург”
- Russian: “Уолсенберг”
- Serbian: “Волсенберг”
- Serbian: “Волсенбург”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Walsenburg, Colorado”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Walsenburg”
- Slovak: “Walsenburg”
- Slovenian: “Walsenburg”
- South Azerbaijani: “والسنبورق، کولورادو”
- South Azerbaijani: “والسنبورق”
- Spanish: “Walsenburg”
- Swedish: “Walsenburg”
- Tatar: “Волсенбург”
- Turkish: “Walsenburg, Colorado”
- Turkish: “Walsenburg”
- Ukrainian: “Волсенбург”
- Urdu: “والسنبرگ، کولوراڈو”
- Uzbek: “Walsenburg”
- Volapük: “Walsenburg”
- Waray (Philippines): “Walsenburg, Colorado”
- Waray (Philippines): “Walsenburg”
- Welsh: “Walsenburg, Colorado”
- Welsh: “Walsenburg”
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Places to explore: Walsenburg and Maitland.
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