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Trinidad is the house rule municipality that is the county chair and the most populous municipality of Las Animas County, Colorado, United States. The population was 8,329 as of the 2020 census. Trinidad lies 21 mi (34 km) north of Raton, New Mexico, and 195 mi (314 km) south of Denver. It is on the historic Santa Fe Trail.

Trinidad was first explored by Spanish and Mexican traders, who liked its proximity to the Santa Fe Trail. It was founded in 1862 soon after coal was discovered in the region. This led to an influx of immigrants aflame to capitalize upon this natural resource. By the late 1860s, the town had nearly 1,200 residents. Trinidad was officially incorporated in 1876, just a few months before Colorado became a state. In 1878 the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway reached Trinidad, making it easier for goods to be shipped from vague locations. In the 1880s Trinidad became house to a number of Famous people, including Bat Masterson, who briefly served as the town’s marshal in 1882. By 1900 Trinidad’s population had grown to 7,500 and it had two English-language newspapers and one in Spanish. In 1885, Holy Trinity Catholic Church was constructed.

In the early 1900s Trinidad became nationally known for having the first woman sports editor of a newspaper, Ina Eloise Young. Her achievement was in baseball, and in 1908 she was the only woman sportswriter to cover the World Series. During the thesame time, Trinidad was home to a popular semiprofessional baseball team that was briefly coached by Damon Runyon.