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  2. Purgatoire River - Wikipedia

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    The Purgatoire River rises in the Culebra Range of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains reaching an elevation of 14,053 ft (4,283 m) at Culebra Peak.The river, formed by many upstream tributaries, flows eastwards for about 40 miles (64 km) through the mountains and foothills to Trinidad at an elevation of 6,010 ft (1,830 m) where it turns to the northeast and flows across the Great Plains through ...

  3. Purgatoire River track site - Wikipedia

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    The Purgatoire River track site, also called the Picketwire Canyonlands tracksite, is one of the largest dinosaur tracksites in North America. [1] The site is located on public land of the Comanche National Grassland , along the Purgatoire ("Picketwire") River south of La Junta in Otero County, Colorado .

  4. List of rivers of Wisconsin - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. ... (Lincoln County), tributary of Wisconsin River; ... USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of Wisconsin (1974)

  5. File:US Geographic Board Naming Card Purgatoire River ...

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    The card in the picture was used on December 6, 1911, to approve the name "Purgatoire" for the river that runs through Southeasterm Colorado. The card contains information about the location, previous titles, and proposed names for the river, as well as a space for the board to approve the final selection.

  6. List of rivers of Colorado - Wikipedia

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    West Fork Little Thompson River; West Fork North Fork Purgatoire River; West Fork Rio Chama; West Fork San Juan River; West Mancos River; White River 12,989 km 2 (5,015 mi 2) White Woman Creek 3,000 km 2 (1,158 mi 2) Williams Fork (Colorado River tributary) Williams Fork (Yampa River tributary) Willow Creek; Wind River; Wolf Creek; Yampa River ...

  7. Purgatoire - Wikipedia

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    Purgatoire means purgatory in French. It may refer to: Purgatoire River, a river in southeastern Colorado, United States; Purgatoire Formation, a geological unit named for the river; Purgatoire River track site, a significant preservation of dinosaur trackways

  8. Regions of Wisconsin - Wikipedia

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    Professor Lawrence Martin created a schema for dividing Wisconsin into geographical regions in his work "The Physical Geography of Wisconsin". [1] [2] Western Upland; Eastern Ridges and Lowlands; Central Plain; Northern Highland; Lake Superior Lowland; Three of these geographical provinces are uplands and two are lowlands.

  9. List of place names of French origin in the United States

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    Brule River (from the Ojibwe name Wiisakode-ziibi "half-burned wood river", which was translated directly into French as Bois Brulé. Half of the river disappears into a pothole in the Judge C. R. Magney State Park). Calumet; Cloquet; Coteau des Prairies ("slope of the prairies")