Tabeguache Peak is one of the
fourteeners of the
US state of
Colorado
Colorado (, other variants) is a state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains, as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the wes ...
. It is a near neighbor of the higher peak
Mount Shavano
Mount Shavano is a high mountain summit in the southern Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The fourteener is located in San Isabel National Forest, north by west ( bearing 350°) of the community of Maysville in Chaffe ...
, which lies approximately 1/2 mile (approximately 1 km) to the southeast, and is close to being a subpeak of the latter.
[The ]topographic prominence
In topography, prominence (also referred to as autonomous height, relative height, and shoulder drop in US English, and drop or relative height in British English) measures the height of a mountain or hill's summit relative to the lowest contou ...
of Tabeguache Peak is only , and the usual cutoff for independence is . According to
William Bright
William O. Bright (August 13, 1928 – October 15, 2006) was an American linguist and toponymist who specialized in Native American and South Asian languages and descriptive linguistics.
Biography
Bright earned a bachelor's degree in lingui ...
an American Linguist specialized in Native American and South Asian languages and descriptive linguistics it is pronounced "TAB-uh-wahch" ().
According to Mountaineer Louis Dawson the name is pronounced "tab-uh-wash," with the accent on the first syllable.
It lies just east of the
Continental Divide and just west of the
Arkansas River
The Arkansas River is a major tributary of the Mississippi River. It generally flows to the east and southeast as it traverses the U.S. states of Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. The river's source basin lies in the western United Stat ...
, in the south-central part of the
Sawatch Range
The Sawatch Range or Saguache RangeThe place name "Saguache” is pronounced “Sawatch” . This name derives from the Ute language noun "''sawup''" meaning "sand dunes" and is spelled using the Spanish language version of this name "Saguac ...
.
It is located within the
San Isabel National Forest
San Isabel National Forest is located in central Colorado. The forest contains 19 of the state's 53 fourteeners, peaks over high, including Mount Elbert, the highest point in Colorado.
It is one of eleven national forests in the state of Color ...
and is in
Chaffee County.
The mountain is named for the
Tabeguache
The Uncompahgre Ute () or ꞌAkaꞌ-páa-gharʉrʉ Núuchi (also: Ahkawa Pahgaha Nooch) is a band of the Ute, a Native American tribe located in the US states of Colorado and Utah. In the Ute language, means "rocks that make water red." The ban ...
band of the
Utes. "Tabaguache" means 'People of Sun Mountain', from "Tava" meaning 'sun.'
Historical names
*Mogwatavungwantsingwu
*Mount Tabequache
*Tabeguache Mountain
*Tageguache Peak – 1982
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See also
*List of mountain peaks of Colorado
This is a list of major mountain peaks in the U.S. State of Colorado.
This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaksThis article defines a significant summit as a summit with at least of topographic prominence, and a m ...
**List of Colorado fourteeners
This is a list of mountain peaks in the U.S. State of Colorado that exceed of elevation.
In the mountaineering parlance of the Western United States, a ''fourteener'' is a mountain peak with an elevation of at least 14,000 feet. This is a co ...
References
External links
*
Mount Shavano at the Colorado Fourteeners Initiative
*
Mountains of Colorado
Mountains of Chaffee County, Colorado
Fourteeners of Colorado
North American 4000 m summits
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