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Huerfano

Walsenburg

Walsenburg is the county seat of Huerfano County, , 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 to the east and the to the west.
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  • 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, CO”, and “Walsenburg, Colorado”
  • Postal code: 81089

Places of Interest

Highlights include Huerfano County Courthouse and Jail.

Courthouse
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The Huerfano County Courthouse and Old Walsenburg Jail now the Walsenburg Mining Museum, are historic buildings in Walsenburg, Colorado in Huerfano County.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Northlands, Walsenburg, Colorado and Pictou.

Locality
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Northlands is a neighborhood of the City of Walsenburg, , United States. Northlands was known as the unincorporated community of Farista, Colorado, before its 2008 annexation into the City of Walsenburg. is situated 2 miles north of Walsenburg.

Hamlet
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is an unincorporated community in , , United States.

Walsenburg

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
node 151626514
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5443206
Wiki­data ID
Q1778949
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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: “Walsenburg”
  • 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, कोलोर्याडो”
  • Newari: “वालसेनबर्ग”
  • Northern Frisian: “Walsenburg”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Walsenburg”
  • Norwegian: “Walsenburg”
  • Persian: “والسنبورگ، کلرادو”
  • Persian: “والسنبورگ”
  • Polish: “Walsenburg”
  • Portuguese: “Walsenburg”
  • 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 (Colorado)”
  • Spanish: “Walsenburg”
  • Swedish: “Walsenburg”
  • Tatar: “Волсенбург”
  • Turkish: “Walsenburg, Colorado”
  • Turkish: “Walsenburg”
  • Ukrainian: “Волсенбург”
  • Uzbek: “Walsenburg”
  • Volapük: “Walsenburg”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Walsenburg, Colorado”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Walsenburg”
  • Welsh: “Walsenburg, Colorado”
  • Welsh: “Walsenburg”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Walsenburg”. Photo: Denverjeffrey, CC BY 4.0.