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  2. List of lakes of Colorado - Wikipedia

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    The location of the State of Colorado in the United States of America. An enlargeable map of the State of Colorado.. This is an alphabetical list of some notable lakes and reservoirs in the U.S. State of Colorado.

  3. Meridian Peak - Wikipedia

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    Meridian Peak is a mountain summit in the Gore Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America.The 12,432-foot (3,789 m) peak is located in the Eagles Nest Wilderness, 9.0 miles (14.5 km) north by west (bearing 353°) of the Town of Vail, Colorado, United States, on the drainage divide separating White River National Forest and Eagle County from Arapaho National Forest and Summit County.

  4. List of mountain ranges of Colorado - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. Geography of Colorado - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Course of the Colorado River - Wikipedia

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    It finally exits Rocky Mountain National Park, flowing into Shadow Mountain Lake and then into Lake Granby, which are portions of the Colorado-Big Thompson Project, a large trans-basin water storage and delivery project that diverts water from the Colorado River under the Front Range mountains to provide an agricultural and municipal water ...

  7. Uncompahgre National Forest - Wikipedia

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    Uncompahgre National Forest is a U.S. National Forest covering 955,229 acres (1,492.55 sq mi, or 3,865.68 km 2) [1] in (in descending order of land area) parts of Montrose, Mesa, San Miguel, Ouray, Gunnison, Hinsdale, San Juan, and Delta Counties in western Colorado.

  8. List of largest reservoirs in Colorado - Wikipedia

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    Colorado River via Colorado-Big Thompson Project‡ Dixon Canyon, Spring Canyon, Soldier Canyon, Horsetooth [20] 10 Green Mountain Reservoir: Summit: 21] 153,639 [22] 0.1895 7,950 Blue River: Green Mountain Dam 11 Twin Lakes Reservoir Lake

  9. Palmer Divide - Wikipedia

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    Thus, it forms a natural separator between the Denver and Colorado Springs metropolitan areas. The elevation along the divide varies between about 6,000 and 7,887 feet (1,829 and 2,404 m), with the high point being Bald Mountain in southern Douglas County. [1] This peak can be seen from I-25 just northeast of Monument Hill.