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Blanca Peak

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Blanca Peak is the fourth highest summit of the Rocky Mountains of North America and the U.S. state of Colorado. [1]

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Adams State University

Adams State University (ASU) is a state-supported liberal arts university in Alamosa, Colorado, U.S..

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Alamosa East, Colorado

Alamosa East is a census-designated place (CDP) in Alamosa County, Colorado, United States.

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Alamosa, Colorado

Alamosa is a city under Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Alamosa County, Colorado, United States.

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Albert R. Ellingwood

Albert Russell Ellingwood (22 June 1887 – 12 May 1934) was a pioneering mountaineer and climber in the western United States during the first half of the twentieth century.

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Blanca

Blanca (meaning "white" in Spanish, and being the Spanish equivalent of "Blanche" as a given name) may refer to.

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Blanca, Colorado

The Town of Blanca is a Statutory Town in Costilla County, Colorado, United States.

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California Peak

California Peak is a high mountain summit in the Sangre de Cristo Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America.

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Colorado drainage basins

The U.S State of Colorado includes the headwaters of several important rivers.

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Crestone Peak

Crestone Peak is the seventh-highest summit of the Rocky Mountains of North America and the U.S. state of Colorado.

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Diné Bahaneʼ

("Story of the People"), the Navajo creation myth, describes the prehistoric emergence of the Navajo, and centers on the area known as the Dinétah, the traditional homeland of the Navajo.

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Dinétah

Dinétah is the traditional homeland of the Navajo tribe of Native Americans.

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Ellingwood Point

Ellingwood Point is a high mountain summit in the Sangre de Cristo Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America.

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Fort Massachusetts (Colorado)

Fort Massachusetts was a military installation built in the San Luis Valley in Southern Colorado.

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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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Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve

Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve is an American national park that conserves an area of large sand dunes up to tall on the eastern edge of the San Luis Valley, and an adjacent national preserve located in the Sangre de Cristo Range, in south-central Colorado, United States.

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Huerfano River

Huerfano River is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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Joseph Dalton Hooker

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (30 June 1817 – 10 December 1911) was a British botanist and explorer in the 19th century.

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List of Colorado county high points

This article includes a sortable table of the 64 counties of the U.S. State of Colorado with their points of highest elevation.

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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 extreme summits of the Rocky Mountains

This article comprises four sortable tables of mountain summits of the Rocky Mountains of North America that are the higher than any other point north or south of their latitude or east or west their longitude in those mountains.

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List of first ascents

The following list summarizes notable first ascents of mountains and peaks around the world, in chronological order.

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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 mountains by elevation

This is an incomplete list of mountains on Earth, arranged by elevation in metres above sea level.

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List of mountains of the United States

This list includes significant mountain peaks and high points located in the United States arranged alphabetically by state, district, or territory.

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List of place names of Spanish origin in the United States

As a consequence of former Spanish and, later, Mexican sovereignty over lands that are now part of the United States, there are many places in the country, mostly in the southwest, with names of Spanish origin.

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List of the highest major summits of Colorado

The following sortable table comprises the 117 highest mountain peaks of the U.S. State of Colorado with at least of elevation and at least of topographic prominence.

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List of the major 100-kilometer summits of the Rocky Mountains

The following sortable table lists the 19 peaks of the Rocky Mountains of North America with at least of topographic isolation and at least of topographic prominence.

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List of the major 3000-meter summits of the Rocky Mountains

The following sortable table comprises the 184 peaks of the Rocky Mountains of North America with at least of elevation and at least of topographic prominence.

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List of the major 4000-meter summits of the Rocky Mountains

The following sortable table comprises the 62 peaks of the Rocky Mountains of North America with at least of elevation and at least of topographic prominence.

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List of the most prominent summits of Colorado

The following sortable table comprises the 100 most topographically prominent mountain peaks of the U.S. State of Colorado.

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List of U.S. National Forests

The United States has 154 protected areas known as National Forests covering 188,336,179 acres (762,169 km2/294,275 sq. mi).

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List of Ultras of the Rocky Mountains

The following sortable table comprises the 31 ultra-prominent summits of the Rocky Mountains of North America.

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Little Bear Peak

Little Bear Peak is a high mountain summit in the Sangre de Cristo Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America.

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Mount Lindsey

Mount Lindsey is a high mountain summit on the Sierra Blanca Massif in the Sangre de Cristo Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America.

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Mountain states

The Mountain States (also known as the Mountain West and the Interior West) form one of the nine geographic divisions of the United States that are officially recognized by the United States Census Bureau.

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Navajo

The Navajo (British English: Navaho, Diné or Naabeehó) are a Native American people of the Southwestern United States.

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Navajo Nation

The Navajo Nation (Naabeehó Bináhásdzo) is a Native American territory covering about, occupying portions of northeastern Arizona, southeastern Utah, and northwestern New Mexico in 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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Sacred mountains

Sacred mountains are central to certain religions and are the subjects of many legends.

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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 Mountains

The Sangre de Cristo Mountains (Spanish for "Blood of Christ") are the southernmost subrange of the Rocky Mountains.

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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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Sierra Blanca

Sierra Blanca may refer to.

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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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Timeline of Colorado history

This timeline is a chronology of significant events in the history of the U.S. State of Colorado and historical area now occupied by the state.

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Trinchera Cave Archeological District

The Trinchera Cave Archeological District (5LA9555) is an archaeological site in Las Animas County, Colorado with artifacts primarily dating from 1000 BC to AD 1749, although there were some Archaic period artifacts found.

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Wild Rivers Recreation Area

Wild Rivers Recreation Area is located in north central New Mexico within the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument.

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Williams v. Lee

Williams v. Lee,, was a landmark case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the State of Arizona does not have jurisdiction to try a civil case between a non-Indian doing business on a reservation with tribal members who reside on the reservation, the proper forum for such cases being the tribal court.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanca_Peak

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