Location• Region-West

• State –Colorado

• Capital-Denver

• Longitude-105.58°W

• Latitude-40.4000°N

Culture• Many different people lived in the Rockies

for thousands of years.

• American Indians have lived in the Rockies for thousands of years.

• They hunted elk and moose.

• Miners, Trappers and explorers came to the Rockies first.

• Tourists now come to the park.

Landforms

• Rocky mountains created most land forms.

• Glaciers created the mountains.

• They made ridges, deep valleys and canyons.

• Longs Peak is the highest peak in the park.

Waterways

• The main ideas is there are a lot of waterways in Rocky Mountain National Park.

• These piles of earth and rock form natural dams that create mountain dams.

• Glaciers shaped the Rockies.

• Sprague Lake is in Rocky Mountain National Park.

Rocks and minerals• There are many minerals in the Rocky

Mountains.• Copper is easily the most valuable of the many

metallic resources of the Rocky Mountains• The Rockies are most noted for their mines

underground. Mines for silver, gold, lead, and zinc.

• The Rockies also have produced large quantities of molybdenum, beryllium, and uranium.