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Capital: Denver 

State Seal: State Seal

Nickname: Centennial State

Motto: Nil Sine Numine
(Nothing Without the Deity)

State Flower: Columbine

State Animal: Rocky Mountain Big Horn Sheep

State Bird: Lark Bunting

State Fish: Greenback Cutthroat Trout

State Folk Dance: Square Dance

State Fossil: Stegosaurus

State Gem Stone: Aquamarine

State Grass: Blue Grama Grass

State Insect: Colorado Hairstreak Butterfly

State Song: "Where the Columbines Grow"
         Listen to the MP3 of song.
         Here's the words.

State Tartan: State Tartan

State Tree: Colorado Blue Spruce

State Mineral: Rhodochorsite

Area: 104,247 sq. mi.

Rank in area: 8th

Population: 2000... 4,301,261
                   1990... 3,294,394
                   1950... 1,325,089
                   1900... 539,700

Highest mountain: Elbert (14,431)
Colorado Fourteeners Initiative

Main rivers: Arkansas, Colorado,
Gunnison, Rio Grande, South Platte