Sangre de Cristo Range
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Blanca peak
The part Mountains Sangre de Cristo ( Spanish for The Blood of Christ ) is an entity belonging to the Rocky Mountains mountain range in the United States of America. It extends south of the Arkansas River in the south of the U.S. state of Colorado at a distance of around 350 km to the northern New Mexico. The highest elevation is the Blanca Peak with 4,372 meters above sea level.
Description
In the Sangre de Cristo Range, there are alpine lakes and tundra regions. There are old pine and spruce forests, large areas of aspen and willows other crops, grasslands and wetlands with a variety of plants and animals.
According to legend, the name of the mountain comes to an exclamation of the Spanish countryside researcher Antonio Valverde y Cosio back, said to have been so impressed in 1719 on his expedition through Colorado to Kansas by the sight of the ruddy morning sun on the snow-covered mountain peaks, that he believed, is to recognize the blood of Christ. He discovered a 27 million year old mountain range that under the pressure of the coming together of the Pacific and the North American plate - originally as a largely held together huge pieces of rock - rose from the ground. It is now a rugged mountain range to the east and west with an eye-catching cut through the center.
At the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in the west valley borders the San Luis Valley, a 200 km long and about 120 km wide in the midst of the surrounding mountain ranges, while the eastern boundary is and at the same time throughout the Rocky Mountains of here continuous transition in the Great Plains begin. Angel Fire in ( Colfax County), which is located in the Sangre de Cristo mountains, is the Vietnam Veterans Memorial State Park.