Arboles is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
and a
census-designated place (CDP) on the
Southern Ute Indian Reservation in southwestern
Archuleta County,
Colorado
Colorado is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States. It is one of the Mountain states, sharing the Four Corners region with Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. It is also bordered by Wyoming to the north, Nebraska to the northeast, Kansas ...
, United States. At the
United States Census 2020, the population of the Arboles CDP was 308. The town's name means "trees" in
Spanish.
The Arboles post office has the
ZIP code 81121.
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History
The Southern Ute Indian Reservation was created on November 9, 1878.[
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Geography
At the 2020 United States census, the Arboles CDP had an area of , including of water.[
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Demographics
The United States Census Bureau
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initially defined the for the In the 2020 census, Arboles had a population of 308, a 10% increase from the 2010 census.
See also
*List of census-designated places in Colorado
The United States, U.S. has 210 census-designated places. The United States Census Bureau defines certain Unincorporated area, unincorporated communities as census-designated places (CDPs) for enumeration in each United States census, decennial ...
* List of populated places in Colorado
*List of post offices in Colorado
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* Navajo Lake
* Navajo State Park
* Old Spanish National Historic Trail
* Southern Ute Indian Reservation
*Ute people
Ute () are an Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin, Indigenous people of the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau in present-day Utah, western Colorado, and northern New Mexico.Pritkzer''A Native American Encyclopedia'' p. 242 Historically, their t ...
** Capote Band of Utes
** Muache Band of Utes
References
External links
State of Colorado
History ColoradoArboles @ UncoverColorado.comArboles @ AllTrails.comArchuleta County website
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Census-designated places in Archuleta County, Colorado
Census-designated places in Colorado
Southern Ute Indian Tribe