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Colorado, the Red State
by Kalarad Bergen
http://www.coloradomountain.com

Colorado is one of the most beautiful states situated in
the Midwest. It has extreme weather, i.e. very cold in the
winters and very hot and arid in the summers. Despite this
it is very beautiful. It has a great reputation for winter
sports. It is ideal for skiing and snowboarding. In summers
too there are a lot of activities like hiking, camping,
rafting, caving and mountaineering. Climbers enjoy the
canyons and revel in the beauty of the diverse rock
formations. It is situated in the middle of seven other
states.

It is a beautiful place but the life for the inhabitants is
not beautiful. The climate is not kind to the people of
Colorado. It is not easy to live in a place where shoveling
the snow is a daily chore and the treacherous roads a real
torture. The people cannot bear the harsh winter so they
retire to the more friendly climes of Florida and Georgia.

Nevertheless, the people of Colorado are very proud of
their state and love it very much. They have the well being
of their state close to their heart. Due to this reason,
they refused to host the 1976 winter Olympics. Other
reasons they did so was because of fear of contamination
and a suspected population boom in their state.

The word 'Colorado' means 'the color red'. As the name
suggests the land is covered with rock formations, which
are a rich terra cotta in color. In Spanish, the word
Colorado means 'blush'. It has a rich culture as the native
Americans have been influenced by the Anglo-Europeans who
settled in the north of the state and also by the Hispanic
Europeans who settled in southern Colorado. Many of the
cities have Spanish names like Pueblo and San Luis.

This state has been the locale for many Western films. In
the 1800s it attracted a lot of prospectors who came here
in the hope of striking it rich in the fabled gold mines.
The ghost towns of the settlers can still be seen there.
There are still quite a few gold and silver mining towns.
The atmosphere is very romantic and one can relive the
excitement of the people who lived here with dreams in
their heart and emotions on their sleeve. It still has the
Wild West atmosphere.

There are calm places as well in Colorado. The Rocky
mountain range runs towards the west of the state, the
cattle country in the north-west and the capital city of
Denver is in the urban belt of the east of Colorado. The
city has a population of 500,000 and a metro population of
2.1 million. Though a relatively new city, it is known for
its restaurants and museums. The Colfax Avenue is the
longest street in America and the inventor of the
cheeseburger in 1935, Louis Bellast used to live here.

All in all, Colorado offers a lot to the potential visitor
from sophisticated city living to the land of the wild, wild
west. The big skies and vast countryside means that it is
not somewhere that's easily forgotten.

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