Place:Dolores, Montezuma, Colorado, United States

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NameDolores
TypeTown
Coordinates37.474°N 108.498°W
Located inMontezuma, Colorado, United States
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The Town of Dolores is a Statutory Town located in Montezuma County, Colorado, United States.[1] The town population was 885 at the 2020 United States Census.[2]

Dolores (Spanish for "sorrows" and named for the river on which it is located) is located at the mouth of the Dolores Valley and the upper reaches of McPhee Reservoir, approximately from the Four Corners Monument. Established as a station on the Rio Grande Southern Railroad, it replaced the earlier town, Big Bend, now covered by McPhee Reservoir. McPhee Reservoir is named for a company town founded by New Mexico Lumber Company, that is now covered by the reservoir.

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