1611, 3037 UNITED STATES (Colorado) - Colorado map

Posted on 27.05.2015, 05.05.2017
Bordered by Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Utah, and Arizona at the Four Corners, Colorado is noted for its vivid landscape of mountains, forests, high plains, mesas, canyons, plateaus, rivers, and desert lands. It encompass most of the Southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains, being the only U.S. state that lies entirely above 1000m elevation. It owes its name to the Colorado River, whereon the Spanish travelers named so for the ruddy (Spanish: colorado) silt the river carried from the mountains.

2481 UNITED STATES (Colorado) - Georgetown Loop Railroad's steam locomotive No. 40 in Colorado Railroad Museum

The Colorado Railroad Museum is located at a point where Clear Creek flows between North and South Table Mountains in Golden, Colorado. It was established in 1959 to preserve a record of Colorado's flamboyant railroad era, particularly the state's pioneering narrow gauge mountain railroads. It has a large collection of 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge rolling stock, and provides train rides on "Steam Up days". The museum building is a replica of an 1880s-style railroad depot.

2204 UNITED STATES (Colorado) - United States Customhouse in Denver

The Federal Building and United States Custom House is a historic courthouse and federal office building, part of a complex of four federal buildings located in close proximity to each other in downtown Denver. Designs for the original portion of the building, completed in 1931, came from the Office of the Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury, led at that time by James A. Wetmore. A 1937 addition, designed by Temple Hoyne Buell and G. Meredith Musick, nearly doubled the size of the building.

2024 UNITED STATES (Utah / Colorado / New Mexico) - Ute people

Utes (Jim Bush and John Tyler) in full gala dress in 1875

Ute people are part of Indigenous Peoples of the Great Basin, and gave their name (which means "Land of the sun") to the state of Utah. There are three Ute tribal reservations: Uintah-Ouray in northeastern Utah (3,500 members); Southern Ute in Colorado (1,500 members); and Ute Mountain which primarily lies in Colorado, but extends to Utah and New Mexico (2,000 members). Ute language is related to the Southern Paiute language and belong to the the Numic branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family.

1604 UNITED STATES (Colorado) - United States Air Force Academy

1604 Colorado Springs - United States Air Force Academy,
Cadet Chapel and Cadet Honor Court
with B-17 Flying Fortress and P-40 Warhawk memorials

The United States Air Force Academy (USAFA), located immediately north of  Colorado Springs, is the youngest of the five United States service academies, having graduated its first class in 1959. Graduates of the Academy's four-year program receive a Bachelor of Science degree, and are commissioned as second lieutenants in the United States Air Force. Recent incoming classes have had about 1,200 cadets; historically just under 1,000 of those will graduate. The buildings in the Cadet Area were designed in a distinct, modernist style, and make extensive use of aluminum on building exteriors, suggesting the outer skin of aircraft or spacecraft.

1542 UNITED STATES (Colorado) - Mesa Verde National Park (UNESCO WHS)

Among the American Indian civilizations, that of the Anasazi Indians and of their distant descendants, the Pueblos of New Mexico and Arizona are indeed quite original, owing in part to the substantial rigours of their natural environment: the south-western part of Colorado with its mesas cut by deep canyons. On the high limestone and sandstone plateau, which in one place reaches an altitude of 2,620m above sea level, the climate is semi-arid. The first signs of regular human occupation go back to the 6th century of the current era.

0283 UNITED STATES (Colorado) - Denver's Civic Center Park

Colorado is one of only three U.S. states with boundaries defined solely by lines of latitude and longitude, the others being neighboring Wyoming and Utah. It was organized as the Territory of Colorado in 1861, incorporating portion of the Kansas Territory, Nebraska Territory, New Mexico Territory, and Utah Territory, strongly controlled by the Ute and Shoshoni tribes. Because was admitted to the Union, as the 38th state, in 1876, the centennial year of the United States Declaration of Independence, it's called also Centennial State.