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Category: Geography of Conejos County, Colorado

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Conejos County is one of the 64 counties of the State of Colorado in the United States.

Conejos County was one of the original 17 counties created by the General Assembly of the Territory of Colorado on 1861-11-01, although it was originally named Guadalupe County and renamed Conejos County a week later, on November 7.

In 1874, most of the western and northern portions of the county were broken away to form parts of Hinsdale, La Plata and Rio Grande counties, and Conejos County achieved its modern borders in 1885 when its western half was taken to create Archuleta County.

Presbyterians came into Conejos County in 1880 establishing churches in Antonito, Alamosa, Cenicero, Del Norte, Mogote, San Rafael, and Monte Vista.

There is also a large Mormon population within Conejos County.

Websites that will be of use when doing genealogical research are The Colorado Genealogical Society and Conejos County WW II Enlistments.

Conejos County is in a broad high mountain valley in South Central Colorado.

Only about 34 percent of Conejos County is privately owned with the other 66 percent being National Forest, Bureau of Land Management ( BLM ) or State owned lands.

* Sangres. com Various Photographs of Interest in Conejos County

Within Colorado the San Luis Valley is generally considered to comprise six Colorado counties: Saguache, Alamosa, Rio Grande, Conejos, Costilla and Mineral.

South of Alamosa it is joined by several streams from the west including the Alamosa River and the Conejos River and Culebra Creek from the east.

Deeper alluvial strata, overlying Precambrian basement rock, Eocene alluvial deposits from a shallow Laramide depression, the Blanco Basin Formation ; and Oligocene ash and lava flows associated with the Conejos Formation, is the Santa Fe formation, mixed alluvium and lava outflows from the San Juan volcanic field to the west ; later strata comprise the Alamosa formation, alternating layers of sand, gravel, and clay.

Much of the land in the south part of the Valley, in Conejos and Costilla counties, was originally part of large Mexican land grants and is private land.

The county seat is the unincorporated town of Conejos.

The city of Conejos is the location of the oldest church in Colorado, called Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish.

Conejos is approximately a mile northwest of Antonito.

Federal Highway 125 is split into three segments: the first segment travels from Conejos, Veracruz in the north to Fortín de las Flores in the south.

The Conejos River is a tributary of the Rio Grande, approximately long, in south-central Colorado in the United States.

Residencial Conejos is 4 km east of Tangolunda and has some of the larger residential homes in the area, some of which are vacation rentals.

The mouth of the Río ( River ) Copalita is slightly east of Bahía Conejos and it has a long zone of beaches.

The site is located in the San Luis Valley along the east side of the Rio Grande approximately southeast of Alamosa primarily in southeastern Alamosa County, although very small parts extend into northeastern Conejos and western Costilla counties.

A significant portion of the residents of the San Luis Valley are Hispanic with historic populations in Costilla and Conejos counties which were settled by early migrants from New Mexico.

* Capote Band of Utes ( Kapota, Kahpota ) lived east of the Great Divide south of the Conejos River and east of the Rio Grande towards the west site of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, they were also living in the San Luis Valley, along the headwaters of the Rio Grande and along the Animas River, centered in the vicinity of today Chama and Tierra Amarilla of Rio Arriba County, like the Mahgrahch the Kahpota maintained trade relations to Puebloan peoples and came into conflict with southern plains people because of their alliance with the Ollero band of the Jicarilla Apache.

From San Luis, the National Geographic road trip suggests traveling west on Colorado State Highway 142 through Manassa, Colorado, then south on United States Highway 285 past Conejos, Colorado then west on Colorado State Highway 17 over Cumbres Pass to Chama, New Mexico paralleling the route of the narrow gauge Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad.

* National Register of Historic Places listings in Conejos County, Colorado

It rises from snowmelt along the continental divide west of Conejos Peak in western Conejos County, approximately northeast of Pagosa Springs.

It enters the southwestern corner of the San Luis Valley from the west near Conejos and joins the Rio Grande from the west approximately 15 mi ( 24 km ) southeast of Alamosa.

Heading east from Santa Cruz are the bays of Bahía Chahué, Bahía Tangolunda and Bahía Conejos.

It was named for J. M. Archuleta, " head of one of the old Spanish families of New Mexico ", and in honor of Antonio D. Archuleta, who was the Senator from Conejos County at the time.

Also early in its existence, the county seat was moved from the town of Guadalupe to Conejos.

A jacal went up in 1854 in Guadalupe, now known as Conejos, which was the beginning of Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish.

* Flickr. com Additional Public Domain Photographs Within Conejos County

Archuleta County was created by the Colorado legislature on April 14, 1885, out of western Conejos County.

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