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Animas River

river in Colorado and New Mexico in the United States
Place River Q2615286

Facts

11 properties

Identity

Instance of
river

Location

Country
United States[4]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 37.931°, -107.569°, 🗺️ 36.714°, -108.222°[6][7]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Colorado, San Juan County[2][3]

Population and size

Length
203.0[14]
More facts +6
Located in
Colorado, San Juan County
Coordinates
🗺️ 37.931°, -107.569°, 🗺️ 36.714°, -108.222°
Drainage basin
San Juan River basin[15]
Mouth of the watercourse
San Juan River[5]
Significant event
2015 Gold King Mine waste water spill[8]
Tributary
Cascade Creek, Florida River, North Fork Animas River, South Fork Animas River, West Fork Animas River[9][10][11][12][13]
🏷️ Also known as
en Animas River cs Animas es Rio de las Animas es Río de las Ánimas fr rivière Animas it Animas (fiume) ja アニマス川 ko 애니마스강 pt Rio Animas ru Анимас uk Анімас zh 阿尼马斯河
🔖 Identifiers · 8
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Animas River DSRR.jpg ↗
Colorado Encyclopedia ID
animas-river
Freebase ID
/m/038s4l
GNIS Feature ID
900284
GeoNames ID
5455252
OpenStreetMap relation ID
7270362
U.S. National Archives Identifier
10042286
Yle topic ID
18-132467
📚 Sources · 1
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Elevation above sea levelP2044
1,597 m 2026-09-26 H/STM · US GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
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CC BY 4.0
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Bronze
1da92a6323a5fec3… admin1CodesASCII.txt +9 files
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🔗 Connections
← Located in or next to body of water 4
Farmington, Aztec, Needleton, Colorado State Highway 3
Located in the administrative territorial entity 2
Colorado, San Juan County
Country 1
United States
Instance of 1
river
Mouth of the watercourse 1
San Juan River
Tributary 1
Florida River
← Mouth of the watercourse 1
Florida River
← Tributary 1
San Juan River
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Summary

Animas River is a river[1].

Body

Geography

Located in include Colorado[2], an U.S. state[16], in United States[17], founded in 1876[18] and San Juan County[3], a county of New Mexico[19], in United States[20], founded in 1887[21].

Related Entities

Colorado United States

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . Geographic Names Information System. wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . Geographic Names Information System. wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [16] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [18] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [19] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [20] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [21] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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