The town of Conejos was founded in the 1854 by Lafayette Head, who later became the first lieutenant governor of Colorado.
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It enters the southwestern corner of the San Luis Valley from the west near Conejos and joins the Rio Grande from the west approximately 15 mi (24 km) southeast of Alamosa.
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