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• County: Statewide
• Title: Natural Resources of Colorado
• Date: 1/1/1963
• Prepared By: US Department of the Interior
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Educational/Technical/Reference Information

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(Above) Steamboat Rock is only one of the many impressive featJ
Dinosaur National Monument where remains of prehistoric ai1imai
etched in exposed rock. j
(Right) The Gateway to
Garden of the Gods near i
rado Springs, with sn,)wc~.,
Pikes Peak in the backgrouI i

(Below) A Colorado cowboy sizes up the rough country in the noJ I,
corner of Colorado near Craig, in the foothills of the Rockies. I'

(Left) The Royal Gorge Bridge
spans the upper Arkansas River
in central Colorado.

Ph ysical
Characteristics
of Colorado

Located near the center of the western half of
the United States, Colorado is bounded by six
States: Wyoming on the north, Nebraska on
the northeast, Kansas on the east, the Oklahoma
Panhandle on the southeast, New Mexico on
the south and Utah on the west.
The eighth largest State in the Union, Colo-
rado is a rectangular area of about 104,000 square
miles lying across the Rocky Mountains, the

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