Sangre de Cristo Range

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Sangre de Cristo Range
Blanca Peak

Blanca Peak

Highest peak Blanca Peak ( 4374  m )
location Colorado , New Mexico (USA)
part of Rocky mountains
Sangre de Cristo Range (USA)
Sangre de Cristo Range
Coordinates 37 ° 35 ′  N , 105 ° 29 ′  W Coordinates: 37 ° 35 ′  N , 105 ° 29 ′  W
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The Sangre de Cristo mountain range ( Spanish for The Blood of Christ ) is a mountain range in the United States of America that belongs to the Rocky Mountains . It extends south of the Arkansas River in the south of the US state Colorado at a distance of around 350 km to northern New Mexico . The highest point is the Blanca Peak with a height of 4,374 meters.

description

There are alpine lakes and tundra regions in the Sangre de Cristo Range . There are old pine - and spruce woods are large areas with aspens and other pasture plants , grasslands and wetlands with a variety of plants and animals.

According to legend, the name of the mountain goes back to an exclamation by the Spanish national researcher Antonio Valverde y Cosio , who is said to have been so impressed by the sight of the reddish morning sun on the snow-capped mountain peaks during his voyage of discovery via Colorado to Kansas in 1719 that he believed to see in it the blood of Christ . He discovered a mountain range around 27 million years old, which rose from the ground under the pressure of the clash of the Pacific and North American plates - originally as a gigantic boulder held together as far as possible. Today it is a mountain range that is jagged to the east and west with a striking cut through the center.

The Sangre de Cristo Mountains are bordered to the west by the San Luis Valley , an almost 200 km long and about 120 km wide depression in the middle of the surrounding mountain ranges, while the eastern border is also that of the entire Rocky Mountains and here the continuous transition into the Great Plains begins.

Highest peaks

Name of the summit height
Blanca Peak 4,374 m
Crestone Peak 4,359 m
Crestone Needle 4,327 m
Kit Carson Peak 4,317 m
Challenger Point 4,290 m

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Blanca Peak . Peakbagger.com. Retrieved January 1, 2012.
  2. ↑ Crestone Peak . Peakbagger.com. Retrieved January 1, 2012.
  3. ^ Crestone Needle . Peakbagger.com. Retrieved January 1, 2012.
  4. ^ Kit Carson Mountain . Peakbagger.com. Retrieved January 1, 2012.
  5. ^ Challenger Point . Peakbagger.com. Retrieved January 1, 2012.

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