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Mancos is a statutory town in Montezuma County, Colorado, United States.The population was 1,196 at the 2020 census, [6] down from 1,336 in 2010. [8]The town is in southwestern Colorado, at the base of Mesa Verde National Park, and holds the trademark for "Gateway to Mesa Verde". [9]
Mancos State Park is a Colorado state park. It is located near Mesa Verde National Park, the West Mancos Trail and the San Juan Skyway. [2] The park is known to have been a dwelling place for Ancestral Puebloans. They lived in the Four Corners area in ancient times from AD 1 to 1300.
The Mancos Shale or Mancos Group is a Late Cretaceous (Upper Cretaceous) geologic formation of the Western United States. The Mancos Shale was first described by Cross and Purington in 1899 [ 1 ] and was named for exposures near the town of Mancos, Colorado .
Montezuma County is a county located in the southwest corner of the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 census , the population was 25,849. [ 1 ] The county seat is Cortez . [ 2 ]
U.S. 160 Business is a business loop that serves Mancos located in southwestern Colorado. It begins west of Mancos and goes straight through downtown. It parallels the Mancos River as it leaves town before it terminates at US 160. Major intersections The entire route is in Mancos, Montezuma County.
The Mancos River, formerly also El Rio de San Lazaro, is an 85.4-mile-long (137.4 km) [2] northeast tributary of the San Juan River.It flows from the confluence of West Mancos River and East Mancos River near Mancos, Colorado and joins the San Juan near Four Corners Monument in New Mexico.
SH 184 begins in the west at its junction with US 491 near Lewis and travels ESE to Mancos.The highway has a one mile (1.6 km) overlap with SH 145 just south of Dolores which is not technically part of SH 184 making the actual driving distance from Lewis to Mancos just over 26.5 miles (42.6 km).
The Wrightsman House (formerly Wrightsman Hotel), at 209 Bauer Avenue in Mancos, Colorado, was built in 1903 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997, alongside three contributing buildings. [1] Wrightsman is a two-and-a-half-storey eclectic stone house amidst a wide area of lawn and mature trees.