Parachute Creek
Parachute Creek is a 14.7-mile-long tributary of the Colorado River in Garfield County, Colorado. The confluence with the Colorado is just south of the community of Parachute and east of U.S. Route 6.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places in the Area
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Parachute
Town
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Parachute is a home rule municipality in Garfield County, Colorado, 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.
Parachute Creek
- Type: Stream
- Category: body of water
- Location: Garfield, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
“Parachute Creek” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Parachute Creek (suba sa Tinipong Bansa, Colorado)”
- Cebuano: “Parachute Creek”
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