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Pagosa hot springs (Ute: Pah gosah) is a hot spring system located in the San Juan Basin of Archuleta County, Colorado. The town of Pagosa Springs claim they are the world's deepest known geothermal hot springs.
Local indigenous people used the hot springs for centuries; the area was considered "sacred ground". In Navajo cosmology, Pagosa Springs is the place where the People (Diné) emerged from their Fourth World underground to the Fifth World, this one, as Aileen O'Bryan records in The Dîné: Origin Myths of the Navaho Indians. [11]
To be included on the list, a place needs to be an incorporated municipality (i.e. a city, town, or village) and it needs to be at an elevation of 3,000 feet (914 m) or higher. In the United States, settlements above 3,000 feet are found primarily on the High Plains , in the Rocky Mountains , and in Western North Carolina .
Pagosa Peak, elevation 12,658 feet (3,858 meters), is a summit in the San Juan Mountains in Mineral County, Colorado, north of Pagosa Springs. [1] The mountain lies in the Weminuche Wilderness and the San Juan National Forest .
A map of the United States of America with the State of Colorado highlighted.. This list ranks the 273 active incorporated municipalities [1] of the US State of Colorado by geographic elevation.
Pagosa Springs: 1,600 11,904 10,300 1,604 133 9 430 February 2021 [21] See also. Comparison of California ski resorts; Comparison of New Mexico ski resorts;
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Archuleta County was created by the Colorado legislature on April 14, 1885, out of western Conejos County.It was named for Jose Manuel Archuleta, "head of one of the old Spanish families of New Mexico", [3] and in honor of his son Antonio D. Archuleta, who was the Senator from Conejos County at the time.