300 Savage Ave, Lamar, CO 81052

Lamar is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Prowers County, Colorado. It lies in southeastern Colorado on the south side of the Arkansas River floodplain. Las Animas is about twenty miles to the west. Lamar was originally founded as a town with an agriculture based economy. In 1982 the German bus manufacturer Neoplan opened a manufacturing plant employing 650, but it closed down in 2006. Lamar has increasingly relied on tourism. xxx