La Plata Peak
La Plata Peak is the fifth-highest summit of the Rocky Mountains of North America and the U.S. state of Colorado. The prominent 14,343-foot fourteener is located in the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness of San Isabel National Forest, 22.7 miles northwest by west of the Town of Buena Vista in Chaffee County, Colorado, United States.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Robertbody, CC BY 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Blaurock.
Mount Blaurock
Peak
Mount Blaurock is a high mountain summit of the Collegiate Peaks in the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 13,623-foot thirteener is located in San Isabel National Forest, 21.1 miles northwest by west of the Town of Buena Vista in Chaffee County, Colorado, United States.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Winfield and Vicksburg.
Winfield
Hamlet
Photo: Magicpiano, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Winfield is a populated place in Chaffee County, Colorado, United States. It is estimated that as many as 1,500 people may have lived in Winfield at times in the past.
Vicksburg
Hamlet
Photo: Magicpiano, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Vicksburg was a town and mining camp in Chaffee County, Colorado, high in Clear Creek Canyon. It is now effectively a ghost town, although some of the buildings may be seasonally occupied by their owners. Vicksburg is situated 6 miles east of La Plata Peak.
Twin Lakes
Hamlet
Photo: Toshihiro Matsui, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Twin Lakes is a pair of glacier-carved alpine lakes about 15 miles south of historic Leadville, Colorado. They are downstream along the Arkansas River, whose headwaters are by Leadville. Twin Lakes is situated 6 miles northeast of La Plata Peak.
La Plata Peak
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 14,334 feet
- Description: Fourteener and fifth highest mountain in the US state of Colorado (14,343‘).
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Chaffee, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude
39.02945° or 39° 1′ 46″ northLongitude
-106.47296° or 106° 28′ 23″ westElevation
14,334 feet (4,369 metres)Open location code
85FM2GHG+QROpenStreetMap ID
node 358915486OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Urdu—“La Plata Peak” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “La Plata Peak”
- Cebuano: “La Plata Peak”
- Czech: “La Plata Peak”
- Dutch: “La Plata Peak”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل لا پلاتا پياك”
- French: “pic La Plata”
- French: “Pic La Plata”
- German: “La Plata Peak”
- Ladin: “La Plata Peak”
- Marathi: “ला प्लाटा पीक”
- Polish: “La Plata Peak”
- Spanish: “Pico de La Plata”
- Spanish: “Pico La Plata”
- Urdu: “لا پلاٹا پیک”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “La Plata Peak”. Photo: Robertbody, CC BY 3.0.