Landforms of the Southern Rockies Fine Art print Map

The region is marked by very extensive basins and plateaus, and a comparatively irregular configuration of mountains. The Colorado-Green is the dominant stream, its eastern headwaters nearly reaching the great plains at some points in Colorado. The Platte, Arkansas-Canadian, and Rio Grande-Pecos drain the east. 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.