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    Lake Alamosa is a former lake in Colorado. It existed from the Pliocene to the middle Pleistocene in the San Luis Valley, fed by glacial meltwater from...
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    Alamosa is a home rule municipality and the county seat of Alamosa County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 9,806 in the 2020 United States...
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    Preserve Alamosa National Wildlife Refuge Great Sand Dunes Wilderness Monte Vista National Wildlife Refuge Rio Grande National Forest San Luis Lakes State...
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    Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve (category Protected areas of Alamosa County, Colorado)
    lake that once covered much of the San Luis Valley floor. The body of water was named Lake Alamosa after the largest town in the valley. Lake Alamosa...
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    San Luis basin until a spillover event 440,000 years ago that drained Lake Alamosa and fully reintegrated the San Luis basin into the Rio Grande basin....
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    San Luis Basin until a spillover event 440,000 years ago that drained Lake Alamosa, forming the Rio Grande Gorge, and fully reintegrated the San Luis Basin...
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  • at least 76 features in the US named Dollar Lake, according to GNIS: This article includes a list of lakes that share the same name (or similar names)...
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    San Luis Valley (category Landforms of Alamosa County, Colorado)
    the Alamosa National Wildlife Refuge to the southeast. To the northeast of Alamosa lie the San Luis Lakes State Wildlife Area, the San Luis Lakes and...
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  • Bitterroot Valley Lake Como (Colorado), a lake in Alamosa County, Colorado United States Lake Como, Florida, unincorporated community Lake Como, Mississippi...
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  • New Town. Lake McKenzie in North Dakota from the Great Bend, south to the South Dakota border. Rio Grande basin Lake Alamosa in Colorado Lake Cabeza de...
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  • The Alamosa Formation is a geologic formation in Colorado. It preserves fossils. The formation was deposited by Lake Alamosa, a paleolake that existed...
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  • Canada Alamosa, an Americanized version of the Spanish Cañada Alamosa (pronounced Cănyădă Ălămosă, translated as Glen or Valley of the Cottonwoods), is...
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  • Colorado Counties: Alamosa, Archuleta, Delta, Garfield, Gilpin, Grand, Larimer, Rio Blanco, and San Juan. Crater Lake is a mountain lake in the Elk Mountains...
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  • consisted of Alamosa, Archuleta, Chaffee, Conejos, Costilla, Delta, Dolores, Eagle, Garfield, Grand, Gunnison, Hinsdale, Huerfano, Jackson, Lake, La Plata...
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    Glacial Lake Albany was a prehistoric North American proglacial lake that formed during the end of the Wisconsinan glaciation. It existed between 15,000...
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    Pueblo) Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican Alamosa (largest municipality: Alamosa) Biden won 4 out of the 7 congressional districts in Colorado...
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    Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad tracks on three lines radiating from Alamosa and interchanges with the Union Pacific Railroad in Walsenburg. Much of...
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    USS Alamosa (AK-156) was the lead ship of the Alamosa-class cargo ships, commissioned by the United States Navy for service in World War II. She was responsible...
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    The Alamosa–Durango line or San Juan extension was a railroad line built by the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, following the border between the...
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    engines. The other major back shop site was in Salt Lake City, Utah, built in 1883. The shops in Alamosa, Colorado primarily serviced narrow gauge rolling...
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    song "The Singing Sands of Alamosa" on Bing Crosby's 1947 album Drifting and Dreaming was inspired by the sand dunes near Alamosa, Colorado, now Great Sand...
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    1881, Grand Lake sits at an elevation of 8,369 feet (2,551 m) and derives its name from the lake on whose shores it is situated: Grand Lake, the largest...
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    Lake City is a statutory town that is the county seat, the most populous community, and the only incorporated municipality in Hinsdale County, Colorado...
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    Trinidad Lake State Park is a state park 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Trinidad, Colorado, United States. The park protects Trinidad Lake, a dammed reservoir...
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    San Luis Valley Regional Airport (category Buildings and structures in Alamosa County, Colorado)
    ICAO: KALS, FAA LID: ALS) (Bergman Field) is two miles south of Alamosa, in Alamosa County, Colorado, United States. It sees one airline, subsidized...
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    Palmer Lake is one of three communities in the Tri-Lakes region between Denver and Colorado Springs. The three lakes are Palmer Lake, Monument Lake, and...
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    territory. Some of the tails advertised the cities of Laramie, Wyoming; Alamosa and Telluride, Colorado; Scottsbluff, Nebraska; Ponca City, Oklahoma; Garden...
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    Lake County is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 census, the population was 7,436. The county seat and the only municipality...
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    to expand their steam fleet, and the two SC-4's were shipped again to Alamosa, Colorado in early 2008. Beginning in May, while No. 1744 began to undergo...
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  • County, Colorado), in the Sneffels Range Twin Peaks (Sangre de Cristo), in Alamosa County Twin Sisters Peaks, in Larimer County Joint name of Longs Peak and...
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