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San Juan Mountains

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San Juan Mountains
A range of the Rocky Mountains in southwest Colorado extending northwest to southeast and rising to 4,364.2 m (14,309 ft) at Uncompahgre Peak.

San Juan Mountains
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(Placename) a mountain range in SW Colorado and N New Mexico: part of the Rocky Mountains. Highest peak: Uncompahgre Peak, 4363 m (14 314 ft.)
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Noun1.San Juan Mountains - a mountain range in southwestern Colorado that is part of the Rocky MountainsSan Juan Mountains - a mountain range in southwestern Colorado that is part of the Rocky Mountains
Centennial State, Colorado, CO - a state in west central United States in the Rocky Mountains
Handies Peak - a mountain peak in the San Juan Mountains in southwestern Colorado (14,048 feet high)
Rockies, Rocky Mountains - the chief mountain range of western North America; extends from British Columbia to northern New Mexico; forms the continental divide
Uncompahgre Peak - the highest peak in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado (14,309 feet high)
Mount Wilson, Wilson - a peak in the San Juan mountains of Colorado (14,246 feet high)


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The cold tail water is fed by the snow coming from the San Juan Mountains.
According to a report in Nature News, the research was carried out by William Schulz of the United States Geological Survey in Denver, Colorado, and colleagues, who took as their subject case the four-kilometre-long Slumgullion landslide in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado.
At its southernmost boundary, it crosses into New Mexico, and the Continental Divide runs through the San Juan Mountains that make up its western edge.
 
 
 
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