The La Plata Mountains are a small subrange of the San Juan Mountains in the southwestern part of Colorado , United States . They are located on the border between Montezuma and La Plata counties, about 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Durango . Their name is Spanish for silver .
3-637: The peaks of the range are easily visible from U.S. Route 160 , which skirts the range on the south. The La Plata River and the Mancos River have their headwaters in the range. The Colorado Trail accesses even towards the northern peaks. The best-known and highest peak in the La Plata Mountains is Hesperus Mountain , which is the Navajo sacred mountain of the north. The seven highest summits are listed below. This Colorado state location article
6-703: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . La Plata River (San Juan River) La Plata River ( Navajo : Tsé Dogoi Ńlíní ) is a 70-mile-long (110 km) tributary to the San Juan River in La Plata County , Colorado , and San Juan County , New Mexico , in the United States. This small river heads at the western foot of Snow Storm Peak in the La Plata Mountains of southwestern Colorado , approximately 35 miles (56 km) north of
9-598: The New Mexico state line. It flows in a southerly direction until it joins the San Juan at the western edge of the city of Farmington , New Mexico, about 19 miles (31 km) south of the Colorado state line. The Navajo name for the river, Tsé Dogoi Nlini translates as "flowing over projecting rock". [REDACTED] Media related to La Plata River (San Juan River tributary) at Wikimedia Commons This article related to
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