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Collegiate Peaks

Section of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, US

Summary

Section of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, US

Field	Value
name	Collegiate Peaks
other_name	central Sawatch Range
photo	Collegiate peaks pano large.jpg
photo_caption	View of the Collegiate Peaks from near the Arkansas River just south of Chalk Creek.
country	United States
state	Colorado
region	Chaffee and Pitkin
region_type	County
parent	Sawatch Range, Rocky Mountains
border		geology=	period=	orogeny=
area_mi2	587
length_mi	34
length_orientation	W-E
width_mi	30
width_orientation	N-S
highest	Mount Harvard
elevation_ft	14427
coordinates

The Collegiate Peaks (or Collegiate Range) is a name given to a section of the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains located in central Colorado. Drainages to the east include headwaters of the Arkansas River.

The Collegiate Peaks include some of the highest mountains in the Rockies. The section is so named because several of the mountains are named for prominent universities.

In the Arapaho language the Collegiate Peaks were called "hiwoxuu hookuhu'ee" or the Elk's Head.

Prominent peaks

Rank	Mountain Peak	Elevation	Prominence	Isolation
1	Mount Harvard
2	La Plata Peak
3	Mount Belford
4	Mount Princeton
5	Mount Yale
6	Mount Oxford
7	Mount Columbia
8	Missouri Mountain
9	Huron Peak
10	Grizzly Peak
11	Ice Mountain
12	Mount Hope
13	Emerald Peak
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15	5742}}
16	16699}}
17	Garfield Peak
18	Sayres Benchmark
19	Turner Peak
20	Sewanee Peak

References

"U.S. Board on Geographic Names".
(2020-07-24). "Colorado Places: Their Native American Names".
The elevation of this summit has been converted from the [[National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929]] (NGVD 29) to the [[North American Vertical Datum of 1988]] (NAVD 88). [http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/faq.shtml#WhatVD29VD88 National Geodetic Survey]

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