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Parachute

Parachute is a home rule municipality in , United States. The population was 1,390 at the 2020 census. The town is the birthplace of Willard Libby, recipient of the 1960 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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  • Type: Town with 1,190 residents
  • Description: town in Garfield County, Colorado, United States
  • Also known as: “Grand Valley” and “Parachute, Colorado”
  • Postal code: 81635

Parachute

Latitude
39.45369° or 39° 27′ 13″ north
Longitude
-108.05296° or 108° 3′ 11″ west
Population
1,190
Elevation
5,092 feet (1,552 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US PHU
Open location code
85FHFW3W+FR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151610861
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5433904
Wiki­data ID
Q1823495
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Parachute” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “باراشوت”
  • Basque: “Parachute”
  • Bulgarian: “Перашут”
  • Catalan: “Parachute”
  • Cebuano: “Parachute”
  • Chechen: “Парашют”
  • Chinese: “Parachute”
  • Chinese: “降落伞”
  • Dutch: “Parachute”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “باراشوت”
  • Esperanto: “Paraŝuto”
  • French: “Parachute”
  • German: “Parachute”
  • Gilaki: “پاراچوت (کؤلؤرادؤ)”
  • Gilaki: “پاراچوت”
  • Haitian: “Parachute, Kolorado”
  • Haitian: “Parachute”
  • Hungarian: “Parachute”
  • Italian: “Parachute”
  • Kazakh: “Паращют”
  • Kirghiz: “Паращют”
  • Ladin: “Parachute”
  • Mazanderani: “پاراشوت”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Parachute”
  • Newari: “प्याराशुट, कोलोर्याडो”
  • Newari: “प्याराशुट”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Parachute”
  • Norwegian: “Parachute”
  • Persian: “پاراشوت، کلرادو”
  • Persian: “پاراشوت”
  • Polish: “Parachute”
  • Portuguese: “Parachute”
  • Serbian: “Парашут”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Parachute, Colorado”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Parachute”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پاراچوت، کولورادو”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پاراچوت”
  • Spanish: “Parachute”
  • Swedish: “Parachute”
  • Tatar: “Парашют”
  • Ukrainian: “Парашют”
  • Uzbek: “Parachute”
  • Volapük: “Parachute”
  • Welsh: “Parachute, Colorado”
  • Welsh: “Parachute”

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