THE LAS ANIMAS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Piedmont Plains and Tablelands setting.
Las Animas County has 4,772.9 square miles of land in Colorado. 10 mapped landscape regions meet across Las Animas County: Piedmont Plains and Tablelands, Purgatoire Hills and Canyons, Sedimentary Mid-Elevation Forests, among others.
Canyons, mesas, badlands and river breaks border the High Plains. This more dissected country includes grassland and shrub-covered slopes, with sharper terrain changes than the neighboring plains.
Regional context: Southwestern Tablelands ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Las Animas County intersects 10 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Piedmont Plains and Tablelands45.1%
- Purgatoire Hills and Canyons17%
- Sedimentary Mid-Elevation Forests12.1%
- Mesa de Maya/Black Mesa9.7%
- Foothill Shrublands7.4%
Southern Rockies in Las Animas County
Steep mountains rise through distinct vegetation bands, from lower grass and shrub country to conifers and alpine terrain. Elevation is a defining difference across Southern Rocky Mountain landscapes.
Read the regional source ↗High Plains in Las Animas County
Broad, comparatively smooth plains distinguish the High Plains from neighboring broken terrain. The natural grassland setting is drier and higher than the Central Great Plains to the east.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Las Animas County
The atlas lists 14 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Las Animas County, including El Moro, Trinidad, Hoehne. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Las Animas County by land and water
The Census records 2.68 square miles of water within Las Animas County, or 0.1% of its total area. That share is close to Las Animas County’s 0.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Las Animas County has 1,536.2 times the land area of nearby Hoehne CDP (3.11 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Baca County, Bent County, Costilla County, Huerfano County, Otero County, Pueblo County within Colorado. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

