List of Colorado placenames of Native American origin

The following list includes settlements, geographic features, and political subdivisions of Colorado whose names are derived from Native American languages.

Counties

 * Arapahoe County – named for the Arapahoe people.
 * Village of Arapahoe
 * Arapahoe City
 * Cheyenne County – named for the Cheyenne people.
 * Village of Cheyenne Wells
 * Cheyenne Mountain State Park
 * Kiowa County – named for the Kiowa people.
 * Montezuma County – named for the Aztec emperor Moctezuma II of Mexico.
 * Montezuma
 * Montezuma Creek
 * Ouray County - named Ute chief Ouray
 * City of Ouray
 * Mount Ouray
 * Saguache County – name comes from the Ute language noun "sawup" meaning "sand dunes".
 * City of Saguache
 * Saguache Creek
 * Yuma County – named for the Quechan people of Arizona and California.
 * City of Yuma

Settlements

 * Cheraw
 * Chipita Park
 * Cascade-Chipita Park
 * Comanche Creek – named after the Comanche people.
 * Cotopaxi – named after the Cotopaxi volcano in Ecuador.
 * Dakota Ridge – named after the Dakota people.
 * Erie – named after Erie, Pennsylvania
 * Fort Massachusetts named after the state of Massachusetts.
 * Fort Namaqua
 * Fort Uncompahgre – from the Ute word for "red lake"
 * Uncompahgre River
 * Uncompahgre Wilderness
 * Uncompahgre Peak
 * Uncompahgre Plateau
 * Uncompahgre National Forest
 * Uncompahgre Gorge
 * Genesee
 * Kinikinik – named for the kinnickinnick plant.
 * Kiowa – named after the Kiowa people.
 * Kiowa Creek
 * Kokomo – named after Kokomo, Indiana.
 * Manitou Springs
 * Niwot – named after Chief Niwot.
 * Olathe – named after Olathe, Kansas.
 * Pagosa Springs
 * Peoria – named after the Peoria people.
 * Shawnee – named after the Shawnee people.
 * Southern Ute – named after the Southern Ute people.
 * Towaoc
 * Yampa – named after the Snake Indian word for perideridia.
 * Yampa River
 * Yampa River State Park

Bodies of water

 * Apishapa River – Ute word for "smelly".
 * North Fork Apishapa River
 * Arikaree River – named after the Arikara people.
 * North Fork Arikaree River
 * Arkansas River – named after the state of Arkansas.
 * South Arkansas River
 * East Fork Arkansas River
 * North Fork South Arkansas River
 * Middle Fork South Arkansas River
 * Arkansas Headwaters Recreation Area
 * Canadian River – named after the country of Canada.
 * North Fork Canadian River
 * South Fork Canadian River
 * Canadian River (North Platte River tributary)
 * Chamita River
 * Cochetopa Creek
 * Illinois River named after the state of Illinois.
 * Michigan River – named after the state of Michigan.
 * North Fork Michigan River
 * South Fork Michigan River
 * Dry Fork Michigan River
 * Navajo River – named after the Navajo people.
 * Little Navajo River
 * East Fork Navajo River
 * Navajo State Park
 * Pawnee Creek – named after the Pawnee people.
 * Pawnee National Grassland
 * Piceance Creek – from the Shoshone word piasonittsi, meaning "tall grass".
 * Rio Chama
 * West Fork Rio Chama
 * East Fork Rio Chama
 * Tennessee Creek – named after the state of Tennessee.
 * Tomichi Creek

Other

 * Amache National Historic Site – named after Amache Prowers.
 * Mount Antero – named after Antero, a Ute chief.
 * Arapaho National Wildlife Refuge
 * Comanche National Grassland named after the Comanche people.
 * Comanche Peak Wilderness
 * Neota Wilderness
 * Rawah Wilderness
 * Weminuche Wilderness named after the Weminuche people.