Canadian Rockies

Canadian Rockies

The Rocky Mountains or the Rocky Mountains, is a group of mountain ranges, located in the west of the continent of North America. Extends over a distance of 4,800 km from Mexico, the United States, then Canada and finally Alaska. The height of the highest peaks of a 4,399-meter summit of Elbert.

The Rocky Mountains. Rockies largest mountain ranges in North America as it stretches a distance of 4,800 km across the United States and Canada, with a width in some places, around 560 km. Stretch of the Rocky Mountains in the United States infiltrated both of New Mexico, and Kllwardo, Utah, and Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Washington and Alaska. As well as extending the Canadian Rockies through the states of Alberta, and British Columbia, and the North West, and the Yukon territory.

Visitors find fun in the Rocky Mountain View peaks covered by snow and glittering lakes and other magnificent landscapes. Rocky Mountains and includes a number of national parks in the United States and Canada. This famous spots in Canada ski resorts, and hunting wild animals. Form the Rocky Mountains Continental Divide line (borderline Continental), which is the line that separates the rivers that flow westward to the Pacific Ocean, and those heading east toward the Atlantic Ocean. See: water division line. Separating the Rocky Mountains in Canada between the rivers that flow north to the Arctic Ocean, and those that are in the Pacific Ocean in the south west of the country. The number of stems of rivers of the Rocky Mountains, including the Arkansas River, and the Colorado River, and the Columbia River, and the Missouri River, and the River Riojeranda.

Key chains to the Rocky Mountains

Series includes:

1 Rocky South.

2 Central Rockies.

3 Northern Rockies.

4 Canadian Rockies.

5 Selwyn Mountains, and MacKenzie

6 Brooks mountain range.

Stretching from the southern Rocky series Sanjeri de Cristo in New Mexico and Wyoming to the mid. And the highest peaks in the Rocky Mountains, seals and Wheeler highest peak in New Mexico and a height of 4,011 m, the highest peak of Mount Elbert in Colorado and a height of 4,399 m.

Rocky stretches that include Grand Central Tatonz of northwest Colorado and Utah to the north of the Upper Yellowstone River in Montana. It is the highest summits in the series Kings summit in Utah. And a height of 4,207 m and the summit Gantt in Wyoming and a height of 3,901 m. There is also in the middle of the Rocky Yellowstone National Park.

Northern Rocky stretching from southern Idaho to the Canadian-American border. The summit rises Bora, a mountain top in Idaho to 3,859 m. And Glacier National Park is located in this region.

The Canadian Rocky extends north from the US-Canadian border, infiltrated British Columbia and Alberta. And full of Alberta Bbha wonderful scenery of nature parks, including Banff and Jasper National.

Selwyn Mountains stretching to the following River Yard in northern Canada. The series is located to the east of the Mackenzie Mountains Selwyn.

The series stretches across the north of the Brooks Alaska and parts of them beyond the Arctic Circle in the north.

Rockies Bakmmha famous for the majestic and beautiful landscapes. Overlooking the Canadian Rockies at Banff town in southwestern Alberta left of the picture. Plant and animal life. Covered with pine forests boys, juniper and the lower slopes of the Rocky Mountains, while multiply fir trees and pine Alspreus, the greater the rise.

Live goats and Rocky Mountain ram and rocky mountains above the tree line, any height at which trees can not grow higher than its level. And live in the forests of the upper slopes of bears, deer, hares, antelope and elk, mink, black mountains, porcupines and chipmunks, and other animals. The Chidnanaat wolves and coyotes and moose and muskrat, is living in the valleys between mountains covered with abundant herbs.

Among its rivers are full of fish Rockies Rainbow trout, and grayling, and trout Ambassahh.

Agriculture and industry. Animal husbandry is the main agricultural activity in the Rockies, where consistency cows and sheep to summer pastures in the mountains, valleys and then returned to warmer in the winter.

Farmers cultivated in the southern Rocky chili, while the produce of Colorado, and Idaho, and Montana, and Utah: grain, potatoes, sugar beets and vegetables.

The most important mining and timber industries in the Rocky. The area produces Leadville and San Juan Mountains in Colorado, gold, lead, molybdenum, silver, tungsten and zinc. And produces Basin Wyoming oil and natural gas. And has also Arsabat of coal, oil and uranium. As well as producing mines located to the east of Salt Lake City in Utah, gold, lead, and silver. For the extraction of wood and coal, lead, silver, and zinc is particularly important in the Northern Rockies and the Canadian Rockies.

Tourism contributes a greater share in the economies of the states and provinces of the Rocky Mountains, as the destination for millions of visitors to enjoy Bmtenzeadtha national and ski resorts, and many other things that attracts tourists.

Eisenhower Memorial Tunnel to the west of Denver, the highest vehicular tunnel in the world, with a height of about 3,400 m. Also, the Moffat Tunnel is the longest rail tunnel in the United States, it is shoved under the summit of the mountains and west of Denver James.

Human history

Formed most of the peaks in the Rocky Mountains millions of years ago, when the earth's crust exposed to turbulence. The mountains contain aspects of the fossils were animals living in the sea, also contain rocks formed in the underground with the intense heat. In the southern half of the Rocky Mountains chains in the past Hiaba volcanic. The centuries long ago, wind, rain and snow peaks of the Rocky creeping chisels, even made ​​Taatkhadd different shapes.

When introduced Europeans to North America, it was the first of many Indian tribes live in the Rocky Mountains, including the Navajo and Alchochona and Aluota. The Spaniards first arrived in the Rocky Mountains of Europeans. Once the solution in 1598 until they have established their colony in the current location of cents in New Maxko.

The Alomrakian Marwdhir explorers Lewis and William Clark, the years 1805 and 1806 trips across the Northern Rockies, while the last American named Zbulen m. Pike in that period also exploring the southern Rockies and was named the top of Pike in the center of Colorado in his name. In the early nineteenth century became the center of the Rocky Mountain fur trade in the United States.

Hampered efforts to transport the Rocky Mountains during the movement westward orientation, which in the nineteenth century, but the passage of Oregon, is the longest land route used by explorers and pioneers before writhing breaking those mountains. See: Oregon, corridor. He was the first railway line runs through the Rocky Mountains, which is built in the basin and Wyoming in 1868. Today, this passes through the pelvis Route 80 highway, and there are the main lines of the railway pass through the Rocky Mountains.

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