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Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance is an 80-acre (32 ha) nonprofit zoological garden and conservation organization located in City Park of Denver, Colorado, United States. Founded in 1896, it is operated by the Denver Zoological Foundation and funded in part by the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD).
Denver. Denver (/ ˈdɛnvər / DEN-vər) is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. [1] Its population was 715,522 at the 2020 census, [23] a 19.22% increase since 2010. [11] It is the 19th-most populous city in the United States and the fifth most populous state capital.
The Denver Botanic Gardens is a public botanical garden located in the Cheesman Park neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The 23-acre (93,000 m 2 ) park contains a conservatory, a variety of theme gardens and a sunken amphitheater , which hosts various concerts in the summer.
The Denver Art Museum (DAM) is an art museum located in the Civic Center of Denver, Colorado. With an encyclopedic collection of more than 70,000 diverse works from across the centuries and world, the DAM is one of the largest art museums between the West Coast and Chicago. [ 1 ] It is known for its collection of American Indian art, as well as ...
2409737 [8] Website. arvada.org. Arvada (/ ɑːrˈvædə /) is a home rule municipality on the border between Jefferson and Adams counties, Colorado, United States. [1] The city population was 124,402 at the 2020 United States Census, with 121,510 residing in Jefferson County and 2,892 in Adams County. [7] Arvada is the seventh most populous ...
9. Draws. 1. Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales[1] (June 18, 1928 – April 12, 2005) was a Mexican-American [2] boxer, poet, political organizer, and activist. [3] He was one of many leaders for the Crusade for Justice in Denver, Colorado. The Crusade for Justice was an urban rights and Chicano cultural urban movement during the 1960s focusing on social ...
Denver Union Station is the main railway station and central transportation hub in Denver, Colorado. It is located at 17th and Wynkoop Streets in the present-day LoDo district and includes the historic station house, a modern open-air train shed, a 22-gate underground bus station, and light rail station. [4][5] A station was first opened on the ...
The Denver area, part of the Territory of Kansas, was sparsely settled until the late 1850s.Occasional parties of prospectors came looking for gold, then moved on. In July 1858, Green Russell and Sam Bates found a small placer deposit near the mouth of Little Dry Creek (in the present-day suburb of Englewood) that yielded about 20 troy ounces (620 g) of gold, the first significant gold ...