The Colorado Front Range communities include ( in a roughly north-to-south order ):

The addition of the adjacent Wyoming community of Cheyenne to the Colorado Front Range forms the full Front Range Urban Corridor.

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Fort Collins is a Home Rule Municipality situated on the Cache La Poudre River along the Colorado Front Range, and is the county seat and most populous city of Larimer County, Colorado, United States.

The city is situated at the base of the Rocky Mountain foothills of the northern Front Range approximately north of Denver, Colorado and south of Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Colorado Party candidate Jorge Batlle, aided by the support of the National Party, defeated Broad Front candidate Tabaré Vázquez.

In the runoff, Colorado Party candidate Jorge Batlle, aided by the support of the National Party, defeated Broad Front candidate Tabaré Vázquez.

The Colorado and National Parties continued their legislative coalition, as neither party by itself won as many seats as the 40 % of each house won by the Broad Front coalition.

The area stretches north-east from the La Plata Mountains in Southwestern Colorado to the Front Range near Boulder, Colorado.

Its drainage basin includes much of the eastern flank of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado ; much of the populated region known as the Colorado Front Range and Eastern Plains ; and a portion of southeastern Wyoming in the vicinity of the city of Cheyenne.

This territory included what is now Colorado, east of the Front Range of the Rockies and north of the Arkansas River ; Wyoming and Nebraska, south of the North Platte River ; and extreme western Kansas.

The part of I-25 in Colorado passes just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains.

Local residents generally use the term Denver area or Denver metro area which may informally mean anything from the continuously urbanized area within the six central counties of the MSA to the Front Range Urban Corridor north of Colorado Springs and south of Fort Collins.

The county is located at the northern end of the Front Range, at the edge of the Colorado Eastern Plains along the border with Wyoming.

This project collected and captured Western Slope water, and carried it over to the Front Range Colorado counties of Boulder, Larimer and Weld, along with an extensive water storage and distribution system, which significantly extended the irrigable growing season and brought substantial additional land under irrigation for the first time.

In the 1990's, the Midwest was at the center of the " Emo " movement, with bands like the Get Up Kids ( Kansas ), Cursive ( Nebraska ), Christie Front Drive ( Colorado ) and Cap ' n Jazz ( Illinois ) blending earlier hardcore punk sounds with a more melodic indie rock sentiment.

Berthoud is situated north of the Little Thompson River, approximately halfway between the cities of Fort Collins, Colorado and Denver, Colorado along the Front Range Urban Corridor.

The city is located in the Colorado Front Range region at the base of the foothills just east of the mouth of Big Thompson River Canyon at the intersection of U. S. Highway 34 and U. S. Highway 287.

The Columbia, Colorado, and Mississippi watersheds meet at Three Waters Mountain in the Wind River Range of To the south, in Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming, the Columbia watershed is divided from the Great Basin, whose several watersheds are endorheic, not emptying into any ocean but rather drying up or sinking into sumps.

The remnants of such clusters may be found in places such as the San Juan Mountains of Colorado ( formed during the Oligocene, Miocene, and Pliocene periods ) or the Saint Francois Mountain Range of Missouri ( erupted during the Proterozoic ).

Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve in Colorado sits directly west of the Sangre de Cristo Range, which is featured in the background.

The Crestones are a group of four 14, 000 foot ( 4, 268 m ) peaks ( fourteeners ) in the Sangre de Cristo Range above Crestone, Colorado, comprising:

They are, from north to south, the Klamath Mountains, the Cascade Range, the Modoc Plateau, the Basin and Range, the Coast Ranges, the Central Valley, the Sierra Nevada, the Transverse Ranges, the Mojave Desert, the Peninsular Ranges, and the Colorado Desert.

The campus of the Academy covers 18, 500 acres ( 73 km² ) on the east side of the Rampart Range of the Rocky Mountains, just north of Colorado Springs.

It ranges in the north from British Columbia to southern California, and on the east side of the Cascade Range to Colorado and Arizona.

BMEWS intelligence is simultaneously flashed to NORAD ( North American Air Defense Command ) in Colorado Springs, Colorado, for interpretation ; ;

Al Fike, an ex-schoolteacher from Colorado, is currently pursuing the three R's -- rhythm, reminiscence and repartee -- in a return class session at the Trade Winds Hotel.

Areas of southern Nevada, Utah and Colorado form a loose northern boundary, while the southern edge is defined by the Colorado and Little Colorado rivers in Arizona and the Rio Puerco and Rio Grande in New Mexico.

* 1876 – Colorado is admitted as the 38th U. S. state.

More recently, high-quality crystals have been obtained from Pike's Peak, Colorado, where it is found associated with smoky quartz, orthoclase, and albite in a coarse granite or pegmatite.

The most sacrifice flies by a team in one game is five ; the record was established by the Seattle Mariners in 1988 and tied by the Colorado Rockies in 2006 and then tied again in 2008 by the Seattle Mariners.

Boulder, Colorado is legendary with bouldering opportunities and fierce clean climbing ethic, particularly in the Crown Rocks area featuring notable first bouldering ascents by John Gill, Chuck Pratt and Pat Ament.

His successor as manager is Jim Tracy, who was originally hired as bench coach for the Colorado Rockies in November 2008.

The Southwest Conservation Corps ( SCC ) is a non-profit employment, job training, and education organization with locations in Durango and Salida, Colorado, and Tucson, Arizona.

* 1996 – Six-year-old beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey is found beaten and strangled in the basement of her family's home in Boulder, Colorado.

* Damon Runyon Elementary school in Littleton, Colorado, is named after him.

The Vail Film Festival in Vail, Colorado, is one of the " Top 10 destination film festivals in the world " ( MovieMaker magazine ), screens over 90 films, features mostly new filmmakers and honors Rising Stars, including Jesse Esienberg, Olivia Wilde, and many more.

Fort Collins is located north of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver.

With a 2010 census population of 143, 986, it is the fourth most populous city in Colorado.

Fort Collins is a large college town, home to Colorado State University.

The national park lies within the Colorado Plateau geographic province of North America and straddles the southeastern edge of the Paunsagunt Plateau west of the Paunsagunt Fault ( Paunsagunt is Paiute for " home of the beaver ").

The geographic center of the State of Colorado is located in Park County.

The city takes its name from a dry lake, a unique dryland plains geographic feature situated atop the divide between the Rio Grande and Colorado River watersheds, located less than two miles south of the city, through which St Hwy 137 passes.

The city used to have an oil refinery, " Plateau ", named for the geographic location of the area, the Colorado Plateau.

The Colorado River also has made many geographic landmarks such as Deep Eddy Pool in Austin, Texas.

In 2003, the Colorado Legislature approved revisions in the university's statutory role and mission to remove geographic and program restrictions.

In 2008, moreover, a gene linked to a virulent form of breast cancer that is typically found only in Jewish women was discovered in a cluster of Hispanic Catholic women in Southern Colorado, many of whom trace their family's roots to northern New Mexico Curiously, a Spanish dialect, so-called " Mountain Spanish ", that is spoken by many of the old families of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado — and chiefly only among themselves — appears to be Ladino or Judezmo, a hybrid language of Old Spanish, Portuguese and Hebrew with sprinklings of Arabic, Greek and other languages, depending on the geographic region of the speakers or their ancestors.

Recently, on the basis of DNA, geographic, and behavioral differences between desert tortoises east and west of the Colorado River, it was decided that two species of desert tortoises exist: the Agassiz's Desert Tortoise ( Gopherus agassizii ) and Morafka's Desert Tortoise ( Gopherus morafkai ).

The Salton Sea Recreation Area is in the Colorado Desert section of the Sonoran Desert, in the Lower Colorado River Valley geographic region.