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Las Animas is the Statutory City that is the county seat, the most populous community, and the and no-one else incorporated municipality in Bent County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 2,410 at the 2010 United States Census. Las Animas is located on the Arkansas River, just west of its confluence in imitation of the Purgatoire River (or “Purgatory River”), in southeast Colorado east of Pueblo, near the historic Bent’s Fort.

According to legend, the town and the Purgatoire River were named after a activity of conquistadors, probably ration of Coronado’s expedition, who died without the last rites sacrament of a priest. According to Catholic belief, their souls would increase Purgatory as a result. The native Spanish herald for Las Ánimas (“The Souls,” in Spanish) was purported to be La Ciudad de Las Ánimas Perdidas en Purgatorio, “The city of floating souls in Purgatory.”

However, according to author Morris F. Taylor, this is not consistent in the space of Spanish Catholic belief, but a French Catholic belief. The Spanish version, El Río de las Ánimas Perdidas en Purgatorio, was considered an frill of the French version. No 19th-century map shows this full Spanish broadcast or any translation of it. Existing maps have alternative names for the river: Río de Las Ánimas, Purgatory River, and “Picatoire”, a corruption of Purgatoire (which today is anglicized as Picketwire). French fur traders of the 19th century referred to the river as the Purgatoire. Another anglicization was Pick of Ware.