Landforms of the Southern Rockies Fine Art Print Map

The region might equally well be termed the Greater Colorado Plateau, since its very extensive basins and plateaus extend from the Mogollon Rim in the south to the Uintas in the north. But, mountain ranges are more impressive from a distance, and the Colorado Rockies and the Sangre de Cristos especially so, at the edge of the vast mid-continental Plains.

The irregular configuration of mountain ranges is distinctive. The Colorado-Green is the dominant stream, its eastern headwaters nearly reaching the great plains at some points in Colorado, and its middle reaches cutting spectacular canyon forms. The Platte, Arkansas-Canadian, and Rio Grande-Pecos drain the eastern slope. The Southern Rockies offer North America’s two lowest-elevation continental crossings, at South Pass in Wyoming, and south of the Gila in New Mexico and Arizona.

The map includes all of Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico; most of Wyoming; a lot of Nevada; and smaller portions of neighboring states and Mexico.Dimensions: All map dimensions are approximate.