About Colorado State
About Colorado State
Colorado (Colorado - CO) is a Rocky Mountain state. East Kansas, the southern boundary of Oklahoma and New Mexico, west of Utah, Wyoming and North and Nebraska border. An area of 269,997 square kilometers, in 50 states ranked 8. Population 4,753,377 (2006), in 50 states ranked 26. Denver, the capital. State name from the Spanish, meaning "red."
Originally Arapaho, Cetin and other tribes within and Utah Indians live. Many places called Indian. Mesa Verde National Park in the cliff cave is ancient Pueblo communities, Indian ruins. There are still about 9,000 Indians living in the state. 16-17 century, the Spaniards and the French have come here. Spanish explorers to see the Rocky mountains color colorful rocks, ordered here named "Colorado", meaning "red." 1803 United States through the Louisiana Purchase agreement made large tracts of land east of the state. 1806 Pax climbed the mountain with its name (Pikes Peak). 1859 Pikes Peak gold discovery, gold digger arrived. 100th anniversary of American independence in 1876, when statehood, and therefore, "a hundred years the state," said the 38th state of the United States.
Statewide average height of 2072 meters above sea level, 50 states in one of the highest-lying states. Rocky Mountains Elbert peak elevation of 4402 m, the peak for the state. East of the Rocky Mountain foothills of Colorado, width 80 km long 440 km, the surface was wavy. Piedmont area of 34% of the state population accounted for 80% of the state. All major cities in the state (Denver, Colorado, Springs, Pueblo, etc.), the main traffic arteries, the majority of industrial enterprises and the majority of institutions of higher learning are located here. Further east is a high plain, the air dry, the average annual precipitation is only 406 mm, 70% of summer rain. Ran through the Rocky Mountains in central Honshu, constitute the famous Continental Divide, east is the Atlantic Ocean basin, west is the Pacific basin. Slopes of the Rocky Mountain water, such as the Platte River and Arkansas River are tributaries of the Mississippi River, Rio Grande into New Mexico, Henan, and finally into the Gulf of Mexico. State of southwest Colorado River which flows into the Gulf of California. West of the Rocky Mountain states, and more undeveloped, a small piece of Indian reservations.
Mild climate, Denver's average temperature in July is 23 ℃, 1 monthly average temperature is -2 ℃.
XLR Colorado Prison Museum is the city of Converted into a cell using the original museum.Mining has historically been rich in gold and silver. Are molybdenum, uranium, zinc, vanadium, copper, lead, oil, coal and natural gas.
Molybdenum output ranked first in the country. Manufacturing since the 1960s, rapid development. The main products are machinery, food and military supplies. Most rely on irrigated cropland, irrigated area second only to California, Texas and Idaho, ranking fourth in the country. The main crops are alfalfa, wheat, maize, sorghum, sugar beet. Livestock development, livestock and livestock products in agricultural income accounted for a significant position. Tourism development. Popular winter skiing.
There are 28 institutions of higher learning, universities have well-known University of Colorado (1861), University of Denver (1864) and Colorado School of Mines (1869) and so on.
Alias "Rise of the State" (Centennial State). The state flower is the Rocky Mountain Aquilegia (Rocky Mountain Columbine). The state bird is the Lark Bunting. State tree is the spruce (Colorado Blue Spruce). Motto is "no God there would be no all" (Nothing Without Providence).
On January 23th, 1984, the state concluded with China's Hunan Province, friendly relations.
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