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198143. Website. www.huerfano.us. Huerfano County (/ ˈwɛərfənoʊ / WAIR-fə-noh; Spanish pronunciation: [ˈweɾfano]) is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 census, the population was 6,820. [ 2 ] The county seat is Walsenburg. [ 3 ]
The Spanish Peaks are a pair of prominent mountains located in southwestern Huerfano County, Colorado. The Comanche people call them Huajatolla (/ wɑːhɑːˈtɔɪə / wah-hah-TOY-ə) or Wa-ha-toy-yah meaning "double mountain". The two peaks, East Spanish Peak at elevation 12,688 feet (3,867 m) and West Spanish Peak at elevation 13,631 feet ...
East Spanish Peak is a prominent mountain summit that is the lower of the two Spanish Peaks in the Rocky Mountains of North America.The 12,688-foot (3,867 m) peak is located in the Spanish Peaks Wilderness of San Isabel National Forest, 9.3 miles (14.9 km) southeast by south (bearing 148°) of the Town of La Veta, Colorado, United States, on the drainage divide between Huerfano and Las Animas ...
The Spanish Peaks Wilderness is a 19,226 acres (77.80 km 2) wilderness area in Huerfano County and Las Animas County, Colorado, United States, located 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Walsenburg. All of the wilderness area is located within San Isabel National Forest, which is managed by the U.S. Forest Service. [2][3]
San Isabel National Forest is located in central Colorado. The forest contains 19 of the state's 53 fourteeners, peaks over 14,000 feet (4,267 m) high, including Mount Elbert, the highest point in Colorado. It is one of eleven national forests in the state of Colorado and contains the Sawatch Range, the Collegiate Peaks, and Sangre de Cristo Range.
Huerfano Butte (/ ˈwɛərfənoʊ /; Spanish pronunciation: [ˈweɾfano]) is a volcanic plug [5] or hypabyssal plug [6] located 8.8 miles (14.1 km) north of Walsenburg in Huerfano County, Colorado, United States. [1][2][3][4] Named Huérfano (English: orphan) by early Spanish explorers, [7] it rises above the south side of the Huerfano River ...
Walsenburg is the statutory city that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Huerfano County, Colorado, United States. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The city population was 3,049 at the 2020 census , [ 10 ] down from 3,068 in 2010.
West Spanish Peak is a high and prominent mountain summit that is the higher of the two Spanish Peaks in the Rocky Mountains of North America.The prominent 13,631-foot (4,155 m) peak is located in the Spanish Peaks Wilderness of San Isabel National Forest, 9.1 miles (14.7 km) south (bearing 175°) of the Town of La Veta, Colorado, United States, on the drainage divide between Huerfano and Las ...