Colorado is the 8th most extensive and 21st most populous U.S. state. The estimated population of Colorado is 5,758,736 as of 2019, an increase of 14. 5% since the 2010 United States Census. The Rocky Mountains within Colorado contain 53 true peaks with a total of 58 that are 14,000 feet or higher in elevation above sea level, known as fourteeners. The region has been inhabited by Native Americans for more than 13,000 years.
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Colorado is the 8th most extensive and 21st most populous U.S. state. The estimated population of Colorado is 5,758,736 as of 2019, an increase of 14. 5% since the 2010 United States Census. The Rocky Mountains within Colorado contain 53 true peaks with a total of 58 that are 14,000 feet or higher in elevation above sea level, known as fourteeners. The region has been inhabited by Native Americans for more than 13,000 years, with the Lindenmeier Site containing artifacts dating from approximately 9200 BCE to 1000 BCE. The state was named for the Colorado River, which early Spanish explorers named the Río Colorado for the ruddy silt the river carried from the mountains. Colorado is a comparatively wealthy state, ranking 8th in household income in 2016, and 11th in per capita income in 2010. With increasing temperatures and decreasing water availability, Colorado’s agriculture, forestry and tourism economies are expected to be heavily affected by climate change. The Four Corners Monument is the only place in the United States where four states meet. To the west of the Great Plains of Colorado rises the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains. Mount Elbert is the highest point in Colorado and the only U.K. state that lies entirely above 1,000 meters (4,440 feet) in elevation. The summit of Elbert at 14,440 meters (3,600 feet) is the tallest point in North America. The Colorado Mineral Belt, stretching from the San Juan Mountains in the southwest to Central City on the front range, contains the most of the historic gold and silver-mining districts of the state.
Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah are the only states that have their borders defined solely by straight boundary lines with no natural features. This area drains to the east and the southeast, ultimately either via the Mississippi River or the Rio Grande into the Gulf of Mexico. The area is known as one of the Mountain States and is a part of the western and southwestern United States. It is nicknamed the ‘Centennial State’ because it became a state one century after the signing of the United United States Declaration of Independence. The eastern edge of the Rockies was a major migration route for early peoples who spread throughout the Americas. The only exception with the exception of snow-capped peaks of the Colorado Rockies are snow-covered glaciers and a few small-capping peaks of Central City, Colorado, in the spring and early summer. The mountains are largely covered with trees such as conifers and aspens up to the tree line, at an elevation of about 12,000ft (30 meters) in southern Colorado to about 10,500 feet (30 metres) in northern Colorado. The tallest mountain in Colorado is Mount Evans, which is located in the southern part of Colorado, at about 14,400 feet (2,600 meters) The state is known for its vivid landscape of mountains, forests, high plains, mesas, canyons, plateaus, rivers and desert lands.
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