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Colorado is located in the western United States. The Rocky Mountains, or Rockies, form the most dominant physical feature of the state. To the west of the Rockies lie the high plateaus of the Colorado Plateau, and to the east are the Great Plains. High, rugged mountains and plateaus occupy fully two-thirds of the state and make Colorado a state of striking beauty. All of Colorado is more than 3,300 ft above sea level. The state, with an average elevation of 6,800 ft, is the highest of all the states. The mountains have played a major role in the development of Colorado, most recently by attracting a steady flow of tourists. A 2010 real estate survey has estimated the population of Colorado at 5,024,748.

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Aurora click here

Aurora is located in central Colorado. It is a residential suburb in the Denver metropolitan area. Leading manufacturing employers include telecommunications and aerospace firms; other large employers are healthcare facilities and customer service centers for national corporations.

Boulder

Jeff Jorissen, REALTOR®

Buena Vista click here

Buena Vista is nestled at the foot of the Rocky Mountain's Collegiate Peaks.

Castle Rock

Dave Gardner, Broker Associate, REALTOR®, GRI, CRS

Colorado Springs click here

Colorado Springs is located on a plateau at the foot of Pikes Peak. Colorado Springs is a year-round health and tourist resort. The city is a center for high-technology manufacturing, with firms producing semiconductors and computer hardware and software.

Denver click here

Denver is on the western edge of the Great Plains near the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. The range’s snowcapped peaks rise abruptly from low foothills and provide a spectacular backdrop to the city. Light industry, tourism, mining, and agriculture are the principal economic activities of the Denver region.

Durango click here

Durango is located in southwestern Colorado, on the banks of the Animas River. It lies about 32 km (about 20 mi) north of the New Mexico border. The city is a tourist, educational, and agricultural center.

Fort Collins

Susan Zack, Broker

Lakewood click here

Lakewood is located in central Colorado. A community in the Denver metropolitan region at the base of the Rocky Mountain foothills, the city is the site of the Denver Federal Center, a large complex of United States government office buildings.

Loveland click here

Loveland is located in northern Colorado, near the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. It is a commercial and manufacturing center.

Northglenn

Ba Vovan

Strasburg

Bonnie Feight, Associate Broker, Realtor®

Telluride

Dan Shaw, CRB

Westcliffe

Lori Kastendieck, REALTOR®

Wheatridge

Lonnie Dreiling, Managing Broker - Owner

More about Colorado

Once primarily a mining and agricultural state, Colorado's economy is now driven by the service industries, including medical providers and other business and professional services. Colorado's economy also has a strong manufacturing base. The primary manufactures are food products, printing and publishing, machinery, and electrical instruments. The state is also a communications and transportation hub for the Rocky Mountain region.

Sheep and cattle are raised in large numbers throughout the mountains and the drier sections of the plains. The leading cattle-raising area is in the north central part of the state, just east of the Rockies. Colorado is the nation’s fourth largest producer of cattle. Most of the state’s livestock are beef cattle raised on ranches, but some dairy cattle are also raised on irrigated pastures near Denver and other urban markets. In addition, sheep and cattle from other states are fattened for market in Colorado.

Wheat is the leading cash crop. It is raised chiefly on the High Plains and is the only major crop grown in the state without the aid of irrigation. Because annual rainfall fluctuates, the greater part of the plains is often too dry for cultivation every year. Therefore fallowing land and other forms of soil and water conservation are important. Corn is the second most important crop grown in Colorado. However, much of the corn is fed directly to livestock. Hay which includes alfalfa, timothy, and wild hay, is also important, as are plants grown in nurseries and greenhouses for live sale.

The annual income from forestry in Colorado is small. Commercial forests are relatively limited in extent; most forests are under federal control and are concentrated in the western part of the state. Almost all output is softwoods, principally pines and firs.

While gold is what drew the first miners to Colorado, the production of fossil fuels is by far the most valuable resource extraction done in the state today, representing four-fifths of the state’s mineral output. Natural gas is the leading mineral product, taken from the ground at more than 7,000 wells across the state. The production of natural gas more than doubled between the mid-1980s and early 1990s. Rapidly falling prices for petroleum have decreased the value of its production and have made coal the state’s second most valuable mineral. Oil and natural gas are produced at more than 300 fields, although the most productive are found in the northwestern part of the state.

Bituminous coal is found in beds that underlie about one-quarter of the state. Extraction is about equally distributed between surface and subsurface mines, and Moffat and Routt counties in the northwest are the leading producers. Nearly all of the coal is used to fuel electricity-generating plants inside Colorado and in nearby states. A small amount of coal is shipped to industrial centers in Utah and Illinois.

Manufacturing in Colorado is dominated by the processing of local raw materials and by technology-dependent light industries. Leading manufactures include the production of scientific instruments, food processing, and the making of industrial machinery. The chief instrument manufactures are those making a variety of products for use in medicine, devices to measure electricity, and photographic equipment. The brewing of beer is the leading employer among food processing industries, although the state has a diverse selection of industries preparing and packaging Colorado’s farm output. Industrial machinery manufactures are led by the makers of computer storage devices and peripheral equipment. Other large employers in the state are firms engaged in making ordnance, components of guided missiles and space vehicles, and semiconductors.

The Denver metropolitan area is the state’s leading manufacturing center, specializing in food processing and in the manufacture of scientific equipment and electronic and transportation components. Industrial activity has developed in a number of other communities located in the Front Range area. In the university city of Boulder, printing and publishing, instrument manufacture, and research and development activities predominate. Heavy industry is still important in Pueblo. Colorado Springs has a wide variety of high-technology industries. Food-processing facilities can be found in many of the communities in the state. Most of the sugar refineries in Colorado are located in communities near the state’s chief sugar beet-growing areas in the South Platte Valley near Greeley.

Colorado produces 96 percent of its electricity in coal-powered thermal plants. Hydroelectric power accounts for 4 percent of the state’s electricity generation.

Tourism in Colorado is a vital part of the state’s economy, although its relative contribution has declined in recent decades as the state’s economy has diversified. Businesses providing for the needs of tourists generate $7 billion annually. Hunting, fishing, camping, hiking, skiing, and automobile touring all contribute to the state’s economy. More money is spent on hunting licenses in Colorado than any other state, and Colorado is second only to Montana in the number of out-of-state licenses issued. But skiing remains the state’s most visible and important tourist activity. Mountain resorts such as Vail, Aspen, and Steamboat Springs have made Colorado synonymous with winter recreation.

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