Big Sandy Creek
Big Sandy Creek is a 211-mile-long tributary of the Arkansas River noted for being the location of the Sand Creek Massacre in Kiowa County. Long stretches are dry most of the time on the surface, although water still flows underground.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Colorado, United States
- Also known as: “Pun’oiohe” and “Sand Creek”
Big Sandy Creek
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Prowers, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Western Frisian—“Big Sandy Creek” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Big Sandy Creek”
- Cebuano: “Big Sandy Creek”
- Cheyenne: “Pónoeo’hé’e”
- Chinese: “大桑迪河”
- Chinese: “大桑迪溪”
- Dutch: “Big Sandy Creek”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر بيج ساندى كريك”
- French: “Big Sandy Creek”
- German: “Big Sandy Creek”
- Italian: “Big Sandy Creek”
- Spanish: “Big Sandy Creek”
- Venetian: “Big Sandy”
- Western Frisian: “Big Sandy Creek”
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