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  2. 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.

  3. Boundary (real estate) - Wikipedia

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    The boundary (in Latin: limes) may appear as a discontinuation in the terrain: a ditch, a bank, a hedge, a wall, or similar, but essentially, a legal boundary is a conceptual entity, a social construct, adjunct to the likewise abstract entity of property rights. A cadastral map displays how boundaries subdivide land into units of ownership.

  4. List of territorial claims and designations in Colorado

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    The Spanish Empire ceded Florida, land east of the Sabine River, and claims north of the 41st parallel north to the United States. The United States ceded a southwestern portion of the Mississippi River basin to the Spanish Empire. The Treaty of Córdoba is signed on August 24, 1821. Santa Fe de Nuevo México 1821–1848

  5. Metes and bounds - Wikipedia

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    Typically the system uses physical features of the local geography, along with directions and distances, to define and describe the boundaries of a parcel of land. The boundaries are described in a running prose style, working around the parcel in sequence, from a point of beginning, returning to the same point; compare with the oral ritual of ...

  6. Eastern Plains - Wikipedia

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    During the late 17th and 18th century Spain and France claimed southeastern Colorado. However, nobody settled the land. In 1803 the United States gained possession of much of the land east of Rocky Mountains with the Louisiana Purchase. Zebulon M. Pike was sent by the federal government to lay out the boundary lines of territory in 1806.

  7. 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.

  8. Weird laws in Colorado, including one against throwing snowballs

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    Every state has its own strange laws, and Colorado is no exception. In the state, laws against throwing snowballs and buying cars on Sundays are both on the books.

  9. List of mountain passes in Colorado - Wikipedia

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    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