Blanca Basin

Blanca Basin is a depression in Costilla, Colorado and has an elevation of 12,523 feet.

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Highlights include Little Bear Peak and Blanca Peak.

Peak

Little Bear Peak is a high mountain summit in the Sangre de Cristo Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 14,043-foot fourteener is located on the Sierra Blanca Massif, 8.8 miles north by east of the Town of Blanca, Colorado, United States, on the drainage divide separating Rio Grande National Forest and Alamosa County from the Sangre de Cristo Land Grant and Costilla County.

Peak

Blanca Peak is the fourth highest summit of the Rocky Mountains of North America and the U.S. state of Colorado. The ultra-prominent 14,351-foot peak is the highest summit of the Sierra Blanca Massif, the Sangre de Cristo Range, and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.

Peak

Ellingwood Point is a high mountain summit in the Sangre de Cristo Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 14,048-foot fourteener is located on the Sierra Blanca Massif, 9.9 miles north by east of the Town of Blanca, Colorado, United States, on the drainage divide separating the Rio Grande National Forest and Alamosa County from the San Isabel National Forest and Huerfano County.

Latitude

37.56612° or 37° 33′ 58″ north

Longitude

-105.48918° or 105° 29′ 21″ west

Elevation

12,523 feet (3,817 metres)

Open location code

859PHG86+C8

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