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2,286
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$33,042
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America/Denver
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Las Animas, CO - History
We would like to provide the residents of Las Animas a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Las Animas Home page. The Las Animas Home page provides as much information as possible on Las Animas. Knowing Las Animas’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Las Animas’s Home page, you will also find Las Animas’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Las Animas has a population of 2286. 45.3% of Las Animas’s inhabitants are Male, and 54.7 are female. 46.9% of Las Animas is married and 47.3% own their own home. Household median income in Las Animas is $33,042, and the individual median income is $19,922. Las Animas’s Ethnic is the following: White(73.4%), Hispanic(44.7%), Multiple(9%), Native(7.6%), Other(7.3%), Black(1.4%), Asian(1.2%).
According to legend, the town and the Purgatoire River were named after a group of conquistadors, probably part of Coronado's expedition, who died without the last rites sacrament of a priest. According to Catholic belief, their souls would go to Purgatory as a result. The original Spanish name for Las Ánimas ("The Souls," in Spanish) was purported to be La Ciudad de Las Ánimas Perdidas en Purgatorio, "The city of lost souls in Purgatory." However, according to author Morris F.
Taylor, this is not consistent with Spanish Catholic belief, but a French Catholic belief. The Spanish version, El Río de las Ánimas Perdidas en Purgatorio, was considered an embellishment of the French version. No 19th-century map shows this full Spanish name or any translation of it. Existing maps have different names for the river: Río de Las Ánimas, Purgatory River, and "Picatoire", a corruption of Purgatoire (which today is anglicized as Picketwire).
French fur traders of the 19th century referred to the river as the Purgatoire. Another anglicization was Pick of Ware.
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