Lasauses, Colorado

Los Sauces is a populated place in Conejos County, Colorado, United States,[1] on the west side of the Rio Grande.

[1] The community came into being in the 1847 as a ford where stagecoaches and other wagons crossed the Rio Grande.

[2] In 1941 (then population 150), it was written that the community was settled by Antonio Marquez, Jose Rodriques, and Fernando Borrego in 1863–64, and was called "Los Sauses," which is Spanish for "willows," and named after the trees along the river and lagoons that look like that tree.

[3] Despite the incorrect spelling, people from the region still refer to the town by the correct name, Los Sauces, and some highway signage has been changed to reflect the correct spelling of the town's name.

The adobe church La Capilla de San Antonio de Padua, first constructed in 1880, and replaced in 1928, is located in the community, and is listed in the Colorado State Register of Historic Properties.