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All the major mountain ranges in the state of Colorado, United States, are considered subranges of the Southern Rocky Mountains. As given in the table, topographic elevation is the vertical distance above the reference geoid , a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface.
This list ranks the 273 active incorporated municipalities [1] of the US State of Colorado by geographic elevation. [ a ] Colorado has five municipalities above 10,000 feet (3,048 m) elevation, 40 above 8,000 feet (2,438 m) elevation, 115 above 6,000 feet (1,829 m) elevation, 256 above 4,000 feet (1,219 m) elevation, and all 273 municipalities ...
Relief map of the U.S. State of Colorado. This is a list of some important mountain passes in the Rocky Mountains of the U.S. State of Colorado . Mountain passes and highway summits traversed by improved roads
The mountains are timbered with conifers and aspen to the tree line, at an elevation of about 12,000 ft (3,700 m) in southern Colorado to about 10,500 ft (3,200 m) in northern Colorado; above this only alpine vegetation grows. The Rockies are snow-covered only in the winter; most snow melts by mid-August with the exception of a few small glaciers.
The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) is the agency responsible for maintaining the Colorado State Highway System, which includes the Interstate Highways in Colorado. [3] These highways are built to Interstate Highway standards , which are freeways with speed limits up to 75 miles per hour in rural areas and 65 miles per hour in ...
A land cover map of Nepal using Landsat 30 m (2010) data. ICIMOD ’s first and most complete national land cover [ 24 ] database of Nepal prepared using public domain Landsat TM data of 2010 shows that show that forest is the dominant form of land cover in Nepal covering 57,538 km 2 with a contribution of 39.09% to the total geographical area ...
The plateau ends just past the state line and the highway descends into the Grand Valley, formed by the Colorado River and its tributaries. [2] The Grand Valley is home to several towns and small cities that form the Grand Junction Metropolitan Statistical Area, the largest conurbation in the area regionally known as the Western Slope.
U.S. Route 40 (US 40) is a part of the U.S. Highway System that travels from Silver Summit, Utah, to Atlantic City, New Jersey. In the U.S. state of Colorado, US 40 is a major east–west route. It crosses the Rocky Mountains, passing over the Continental Divide at Berthoud Pass before descending to the Front Range