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Mancos is a statutory town in Montezuma County, Colorado, United States. The population was 1,196 at the 2020 census, down from 1,336 in 2010.

The town is in southwestern Colorado, at the base of Mesa Verde National Park, and holds the trademark for “Gateway to Mesa Verde”. Surrounded by rangeland and mountains, Mancos offers a variety of uncovered recreational activities. The town was founded in 1894, near the site where in front Spanish explorers first crossed the Mancos River. It is the commercial center for east Montezuma County, and was considered at one become old as a county seat. It is served by U.S. Highway 160 and State Highway 184.

The Mancos Valley has been settled past at least the 10th century AD, although various rough conditions in the mid to late 13th century axiom the area and its multitude of small villages only by the Ancient Pueblo People (Anasazi). The Mancos area is dotted when inventoried and uninventoried archeological sites, including both and no-one else houses and shelters and small village complexes. Mancos Valley residents were probably in the middle of those who withdrew to the cliff dwellings on Mesa Verde, perhaps for defensive purposes, due to climate change, or as portion of captivation policy of viable invaders and occupiers of the region.