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Arikaree River
The Arikaree River is a river in the central Great Plains of North America.
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Arkansas River
The Arkansas River is a major tributary of the Mississippi River.
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Aspen
Aspen is a common name for certain tree species; some, but not all, are classified by botanists in the section ''Populus'', of the Populus genus.
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Aspen, Colorado
Aspen is the home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Pitkin County, Colorado, United States.
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Boulder, Colorado
Boulder is the home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Boulder County, and the 11th most populous municipality in the U.S. state of Colorado.
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Central City, Colorado
The City of Central, commonly known as Central City, is the Home Rule Municipality in Gilpin and Clear Creek counties that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Gilpin County, Colorado, United States.
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Colorado
Colorado is a state of the United States encompassing most of the southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains.
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Colorado drainage basins
The U.S State of Colorado includes the headwaters of several important rivers.
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Colorado Mineral Belt
The Colorado Mineral Belt (CMB) is an area of ore deposits from the La Plata Mountains in Southwestern Colorado to near the middle of the state at Boulder, Colorado and from which over 25 million troy ounces (778 t) of gold were extracted beginning in 1858.
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Colorado Plateau
The Colorado Plateau, also known as the Colorado Plateau Province, is a physiographic and desert region of the Intermontane Plateaus, roughly centered on the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States.
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Colorado River
The Colorado River is one of the principal rivers of the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico (the other being the Rio Grande).
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Colorado Springs, Colorado
Colorado Springs is a home rule municipality that is the largest city by area in Colorado as well as the county seat and the most populous municipality of El Paso County, Colorado, United States.
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Colorado Western Slope
The Western Slope of Colorado refers to a region of the U.S. state of Colorado incorporating everything in the state west of the Continental Divide, including Moffat, Routt, Rio Blanco, Garfield, Mesa (Grand Valley), Delta, Montrose, Gunnison, Hinsdale, Ouray and San Miguel counties.
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Continental Divide of the Americas
The Continental Divide of the Americas (also known as the Great Divide, the Continental Gulf of Division, or merely the Continental Divide) is the principal, and largely mountainous, hydrological divide of the Americas.
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Crested Butte, Colorado
Crested Butte is a home rule municipality in Gunnison County, Colorado, United States.
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Dryland farming
Dryland farming and dry farming are agricultural techniques for non-irrigated cultivation of crops.
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Eastern Plains
The Eastern Plains of Colorado refers to a region of the U.S. state of Colorado east of the Rocky Mountains and east of the population centers of the Front Range.
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Four Corners Monument
The Four Corners Monument marks the quadripoint in the Southwestern United States where the states of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah meet.
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Fourteener
In the mountaineering parlance of the Western United States, a fourteener is a mountain peak with an elevation of at least.
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Front Range Urban Corridor
The Front Range Urban Corridor is an oblong region of urban population located along the eastern face of the Southern Rocky Mountains, encompassing 18 counties in the U.S. states of Colorado and Wyoming.
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Grain elevator
A grain elevator is an agrarian facility complex designed to stockpile or store grain.
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Grand Junction, Colorado
The city of Grand Junction is the home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Mesa County, Colorado, United States.
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Grand Mesa
The Grand Mesa is a large mesa in western Colorado in the United States.
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Great Plains
The Great Plains (sometimes simply "the Plains") is the broad expanse of flat land (a plain), much of it covered in prairie, steppe, and grassland, that lies west of the Mississippi River tallgrass prairie in the United States and east of the Rocky Mountains in the U.S. and Canada.
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High Plains (United States)
The High Plains are a subregion of the Great Plains mostly in the Western United States, but also partly in the Midwest states of Nebraska, Kansas, and South Dakota, generally encompassing the western part of the Great Plains before the region reaches the Rocky Mountains.
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Index of Colorado-related articles
The following is an alphabetical list of articles related to the U.S. state of Colorado.
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Interstate 70
Interstate 70 (I-70) is a major Interstate Highway in the United States that runs from I-15 near Cove Fort, Utah to I-695 near Baltimore, Maryland.
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Kansas
Kansas is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States.
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Lake County, Colorado
Lake County is one of the 64 counties in the U.S. state of Colorado.
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Latitude
In geography, latitude is a geographic coordinate that specifies the north–south position of a point on the Earth's surface.
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List of Colorado fourteeners
In the mountaineering parlance of the Western United States, a fourteener is a mountain peak with an elevation of at least 14,000 feet.
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List of counties in Colorado
The U.S. state of Colorado is divided into 64 counties.
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List of mountain passes in Colorado
The following tables list some important mountain passes in the Rocky Mountains of the U.S. state of Colorado.
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List of mountain peaks of Colorado
This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaksThis article defines a significant summit as a summit with at least of topographic prominence, and a major summit as a summit with at least of topographic prominence.
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List of mountain peaks of the Rocky Mountains
This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaksThis article defines a significant summit as a summit with at least of topographic prominence, and a major summit as a summit with at least of topographic prominence.
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List of mountain ranges of Colorado
The following table lists the major mountain ranges of the U.S. State of Colorado.
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List of regions of the United States
This is a list of some of the regions in the United States.
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List of rivers of Colorado
This is a list of streams in the U.S. state of Colorado.
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List of waterfalls of Colorado
The following list includes all 81 waterfalls in Colorado that have official names according to the United States Geological Survey.
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Longitude
Longitude, is a geographic coordinate that specifies the east-west position of a point on the Earth's surface.
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Longs Peak
Longs Peak is a high and prominent mountain summit in the northern Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America.
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Mesa
Mesa (Spanish and Portuguese for table) is the American English term for tableland, an elevated area of land with a flat top and sides that are usually steep cliffs.
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Middle Park (Colorado basin)
Middle Park (elev. 8000 ft/2500 m) is a high basin in the Rocky Mountains of north-central Colorado in the United States.
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Midwestern United States
The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the American Midwest, Middle West, or simply the Midwest, is one of four census regions of the United States Census Bureau (also known as "Region 2").
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Mount Elbert
Mount Elbert is the highest summit of the Rocky Mountains of North America and the highest point in the U.S. state of Colorado and the entire Mississippi River drainage basin.
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Mount Evans
Mount Evans is the highest summit of the Chicago Peaks in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America.
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Nebraska
Nebraska is a state that lies in both the Great Plains and the Midwestern United States.
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New Mexico
New Mexico (Nuevo México, Yootó Hahoodzo) is a state in the Southwestern Region of the United States of America.
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North America
North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.
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North Park (Colorado basin)
North Park is a high, sparsely populated basin (approximately 8800 ft in elevation) in the Rocky Mountains in north central Colorado in the United States.
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North Platte River
The North Platte River is a major tributary of the Platte River and is approximately long, counting its many curves.
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Northwestern United States
The Northwestern United States (Noroeste de Estados Unidos) is an informal geographic region of the United States.
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Outline of Colorado
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the U.S. state of Colorado: Colorado – 22nd most populous, the eighth most extensive, and the highest in average elevation of the 50 United States.
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Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions.
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The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed in the 1990s to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.
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Pikes Peak
Pikes Peak is the highest summit of the southern Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, in North America.
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Pinophyta
The Pinophyta, also known as Coniferophyta or Coniferae, or commonly as conifers, are a division of vascular land plants containing a single extant class, Pinopsida.
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Ranch
A ranch is an area of land, including various structures, given primarily to the practice of ranching, the practice of raising grazing livestock such as cattle or sheep for meat or wool.
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Rift
In geology, a rift is a linear zone where the lithosphere is being pulled apart and is an example of extensional tectonics.
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Rio Grande
The Rio Grande (or; Río Bravo del Norte, or simply Río Bravo) is one of the principal rivers in the southwest United States and northern Mexico (the other being the Colorado River).
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Rio Grande rift
The Rio Grande Rift is a north-trending continental rift zone.
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River source
The source or headwaters of a river or stream is the furthest place in that river or stream from its estuary or confluence with another river, as measured along the course of the river.
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Rocky Mountains
The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range in western North America.
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San Juan Mountains
The San Juan Mountains are a high and rugged mountain range in the Rocky Mountains in southwestern Colorado and northwestern New Mexico.
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San Luis Valley
The San Luis Valley is a region in south-central Colorado with a small portion overlapping into New Mexico.
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Sangre de Cristo Range
The Sangre de Cristo Range, called the East Range locally in the San Luis Valley, is a high, rugged and narrow mountain range of the Rocky Mountains in southern Colorado in the United States, running north and south along the east side of the Rio Grande Rift.
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Ski resort
A ski resort is a resort developed for skiing, snowboarding, and other winter sports.
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South Park (Park County, Colorado)
South Park is a grassland flat within the basin formed by the Rocky Mountains' Mosquito and Park Mountain Ranges within central Colorado.
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South Platte River
The South Platte River is one of the two principal tributaries of the Platte River.
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Southern Rocky Mountains
The Southern Rocky Mountains are a major subregion of the Rocky Mountains of North America located in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Wyoming, the central and western portions of Colorado, the northern portion of New Mexico, and extreme eastern portions of Utah.
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Spanish Peaks
The Spanish Peaks are a pair of prominent mountains located in southwestern Huerfano County, Colorado.
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Steamboat Springs, Colorado
The City of Steamboat Springs, often shortened to just Steamboat, is a Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat and the most populous city of Routt County, Colorado, United States.
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Tree line
The tree line is the edge of the habitat at which trees are capable of growing.
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U.S. state
A state is a constituent political entity of the United States.
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Utah
Utah is a state in the western United States.
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Vail, Colorado
The Town of Vail is a Home Rule Municipality in Eagle County, Colorado, United States.
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Walsenburg, Colorado
Walsenburg is a statutory city that is the county seat and the most populous city of Huerfano County, Colorado, United States.
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Washington meridians
The Washington meridians are four meridians that were used as prime meridians in the United States and pass through Washington, D.C..
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Water tower
A water tower is an elevated structure supporting a water tank constructed at a height sufficient to pressurize a water supply system for the distribution of potable water, and to provide emergency storage for fire protection.
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Wet Mountain Valley
The Wet Mountain Valley is a high elevation mountain valley located in Custer County, in south-central Colorado.
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Wildfire
A wildfire or wildland fire is a fire in an area of combustible vegetation that occurs in the countryside or rural area.
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Winter wheat
Winter wheat (usually Triticum aestivum) are strains of wheat that are planted in the autumn to germinate and develop into young plants that remain in the vegetative phase during the winter and resume growth in early spring.
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Wyoming
Wyoming is a state in the mountain region of the western United States.
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Yuma County, Colorado
Yuma County is one of the 64 counties of the U.S. state of Colorado.
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25th meridian west from Washington
The 25th meridian of longitude west from Washington is a line of longitude approximately 102.05 degrees west of the Prime Meridian of Greenwich.
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32nd meridian west from Washington
The 32nd meridian of longitude west from Washington is a line of longitude approximately 109°02′48″ west of the Prime Meridian of Greenwich.
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36th United States Congress
The Thirty-sixth United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.
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37th parallel north
The 37th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 37 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.
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41st parallel north
The 41st parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 41 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Colorado
