Introduction Denver, capital of the state of Colorado, at 1,609 m at the confluence of the South Platte and Cherry Creek, with 467,000 inhabitants. (urban area: approx. 1.8 million inhabitants). Commercial, distribution, financial and industrial center of the Midwest, with sizeable meat industry; furthermore, the aircraft and aerospace industry and the production of mining machines.… Read More »
The US state of Colorado (CO) is located in the western United States. Colorado has been home to several Native American tribes for thousands of years, who inhabited both the mountain valleys of the Rocky Mountains and the plains of the High Plains. The landscape of Colorado consists for a fairly large part of mountains,… Read More »
In the Colorado area, centuries before the white came on the scene, nomadic Indians foraged the plains for edible vegetation and small animals. In about 100 AD, in the Four Corners area of southwestern Colorado, the very advanced Anasazi Indians built functional, high-rise cliff dwellings in the canyon walls; later their entire culture simply disappeared.… Read More »