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Place Name
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Cache la Poudre River
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Pronunciation
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KASH lah POO-druh
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Place Status (Type)
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river
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Location
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Larimer County, Colorado (CO), United States, North America
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Latitude
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unknown
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Longitude
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unknown
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Cache la Poudre River
(KASH lah POO-druh),
126 mi/203 km long, N Colo.; rises at
Continental Divide in NW corner of Rocky Mt. Natl. Park, Larimer co.,
flows N through Roosevelt Natl. Forest, E past Poudro Park, and SE past
Fort Collins, Windsor, and Greely, to South Platte R.
5 mi/8 km E of Greeley. Waters sugar beet,
livestock region. Receives water from Laramie R. through Laramie-Poudre
(or Greeley-Poudre) Tunnel (c.2 mi/3.2 km
long; finished 1911), used to irrigate 125,000 acres/50,588
ha in Larimer and Weld cos. Also called Poudre R.
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