Curecanti National Recreation Area
Curecanti National Recreation Area is in Southwestern Colorado in the Rocky Mountains region of the United States of America.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Park
- Description: Recreation area protecting a series of reservoirs on the Gunnison River in Colorado, United States
- Also known as: “CURE”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Blue Mesa Dam.
Blue Mesa Dam
Power station
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Blue Mesa Dam is a 390-foot-tall zoned earthfill dam on the Gunnison River in Colorado. It creates Blue Mesa Reservoir, and is within Curecanti National Recreation Area just before the river enters the Black Canyon of the Gunnison.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sapinero.
Sapinero
Village
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Sapinero is an unincorporated community located on U.S. Route 50, along the shore of Blue Mesa Reservoir in the Curecanti National Recreation Area in Gunnison County, Colorado, United States.
Curecanti National Recreation Area
- Categories: National Recreation Area and National Park System unit
- Location: Gunnison, Southwestern Colorado, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Slovenian—“Curecanti National Recreation Area” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Curecanti National Recreation Area”
- French: “Curecanti National Recreation Area”
- Slovenian: “CURE”
- Slovenian: “Curecanti National Recreation Area”
- Slovenian: “Nacionalno rekreacijsko območje Curecanti”
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