Big Sandy Creek

Big Sandy Creek is a 211-mile-long tributary of the noted for being the location of the Sand Creek Massacre in . Long stretches are dry most of the time on the surface, although water still flows underground.
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  • Stream
  • …lies at an elevation of 3,547 feet (1,081 metres)
  • Description: river in Colorado, United States
  • Also known as
    “Pun’oiohe”
    “Sand Creek”

Big Sandy Creek

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Latitude
38.11195° or 38° 6′ 43″ north
Longitude
-102.48408° or 102° 29′ 3″ west
Open location code
85CV4G68+Q9
Geo­Names ID
5413831
Wiki­data ID
Q4906273

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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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