Colorado State Animal

Like most states, Colorado has chosen a state animal meant to reflect its culture, landscape, and sense of identity. In 1961, that choice was the Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep, an animal closely tied ...

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From the magical Rocky Mountain National Park to lesser-known mining towns, this list of the best places to visit in Colorado showcases the best the state has to offer.

Colorado is a landlocked state located in the central United States. It borders Kansas in the east, Utah in the west, Arizona in the southwest, Nebraska and Wyoming in the North, and New Mexico and Oklahoma in the south.

Colorado, “the Centennial State,” was the thirty-eighth state to enter the Union on . Its diverse geography encompasses 104,094 square miles of the American West and includes swathes of the Great Plains, southern Rocky Mountains, and the Colorado Plateau.

DENVER (KDVR) — Each state in the United States has state symbols that come in the shape of animals, songs and fish, among many others. Most people can usually name their state animal off the top of ...

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As college basketball players compete for one shining moment, we’ve imagined a bracket of Colorado’s animals that provide us countless shining moments year-round. (1) Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep def ...

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MSN: Colorado’s ultimate survivor: Why the bighorn sheep became the state symbol

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Colorado is noted for its landscape of mountains, forests, high plains, mesas, canyons, plateaus, rivers, and desert lands. It encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains, as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains.

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