Towaoc is a Census-designated place (CDP), a post office, and the capital of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe located on the Ute Mountain Ute Reservation in Montezuma County, Colorado, United States. The Towaoc post office has the ZIP Code 81334. At the United States Census 2020, the population of the Towaoc CDP was 1,120.
The Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Office Complex in Towaoc.
The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe is one of three federally recognized tribes of the Ute Nation, and are mostly descendants of the historic Weeminuche Band who moved to the Southern Ute reservation in 1897. Their reservation is headquartered at Towaoc, Colorado on the Ute Mountain Ute Indian Reservation in southwestern Colorado, northwestern New Mexico and small sections of Utah.
Utes on horseback in the 1890s
Ute wickiup used in the western regions
Tipis painted by George Catlin who visited a number of tribes in the 1830s and recorded Native American daily life
Mural of Fathers Dominguez and Escalante, Utah State capital building