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unusual facts about Sangre de Cristo Mountains


Sangre de Cristo

Sangre de Cristo Mountains, in Northern New Mexico and South-Central Colorado in the United States


Custer County High School

Custer County School District is nestled between the Wet Mountains and Sangre de Cristo Mountains of south central Colorado.

Glorieta Pass

The victory by the Union Army (primarily in the form of the Colorado Militia) prevented the breakout of the Confederate Army forces onto the High Plains on the east side of Sangre de Cristo Mountains, halting the intended Confederate advance northward along the base of the Rocky Mountains.

Ocate Peak

Originally, due to the heightened chance of meeting marauding Indians on the plains, the Santa Fe Trail kept as close to the Sangre de Cristo Mountains as possible, passing through Rayado to the community of Ocate and passing west of Ocate Peak.


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Coyote Creek State Park

70 million years ago the Laramide orogeny uplifted the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, steeply tilting the earlier sediments down to the east.

Sangre de Cristo

Sangre de Cristo Range, the northernmost portion of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, located entirely in Colorado

Tucker Smallwood

Their self-titled first album, produced in 1994 at Clark Dimond's Dimond Studio in Colorado's Sangre de Cristo Mountains, is a tribute to the music of Delta Blues King Robert Johnson with 15 tracks written by or associated with Johnson.