Colorado Colorado is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States. It is one of the Mountain states, sharing the Four Corners region with Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. It is also bordered by Wyoming to the north, Nebraska to the northeast, Kansas ...

is a state located in the southwestern United States. Colorado may also refer to:

Geography

Rivers

Colorado River The Colorado River () is one of the principal rivers (along with the Rio Grande) in the Southwestern United States and in northern Mexico. The river, the List of longest rivers of the United States (by main stem), 5th longest in the United St ...

in the western United States and Mexico that passes through the Grand Canyon *

Colorado River (Texas) The Colorado River is an approximately river in the United States, U.S. state of Texas. It is the 11th longest river in the United States and the longest river with both its source (river or stream), source and its river delta, mouth within Tex ...

in Texas in the United States *

Colorado River (Argentina) The Colorado River (, ) is a river in the center of Argentina. The Colorado River marks most of the political boundary between the Argentine provinces of Neuquén and Mendoza, and between Rio Negro and La Pampa. Its man-made dam, "Embalse ...

Towns and cities

* Colorado, Mitchells Plain, City of Cape Town, South Africa * Colorado, Paraná, Brazil * Colorado, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil * Colorado, Texas, US *

Colorado City, Colorado Colorado City is a census-designated place (CDP) and post office in and governed by Pueblo County, Colorado, United States. The CDP is a part of the Pueblo, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. The Colorado City post office has the ZIP Code 810 ...

, US *

Colorado City, Texas Colorado City ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Mitchell County, Texas, United States. Its population was 3,991 at the 2020 census. History Colorado City originated as a ranger camp in 1877. It grew into a cattlemen's center and has ...

, US *

Colorado Springs, Colorado Colorado Springs is the most populous city in El Paso County, Colorado, United States, and its county seat. The city had a population of 478,961 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, a 15.02% increase since 2010 United States Census, 2 ...

, US * Alto Colorado, Pichilemu, Chile

Other places

* The

University of Colorado at Boulder The University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder, CU, or Colorado) is a Public university, public research university in Boulder, Colorado, United States. Founded in 1876, five months before Colorado became a Federated state, state, it is the fla ...

, a public research university located in Boulder, Colorado *

Colorado County, Texas Colorado County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 20,557. Its county seat is Columbus. It is named for the Colorado River of Texas. The county was founded in 1836 and organized the nex ...

Colorado Desert The Colorado Desert is a part of the larger Sonoran Desert located in California, United States, and Baja California, Mexico. It encompasses approximately , including the heavily irrigated Coachella, Imperial and Mexicali valleys. It is home to ...

in California *

Colorado Plateau The Colorado Plateau is a physiographic and desert region of the Intermontane Plateaus, roughly centered on the Four Corners region of the Southwestern United States. This plateau covers an area of 336,700 km2 (130,000 mi2) within w ...

, physiographic region in Western United States * Colorados Archipelago, chain of isles and cays on Cuba's north-western coast * Colorado Group, a geologic classification in the Great Plains of North America *

Los Colorados Formation The Los Colorados Formation is a sedimentary geological formation, rock formation of the Ischigualasto-Villa Unión Basin, found in the provinces of San Juan Province, Argentina, San Juan and La Rioja Province (Argentina), La Rioja in Argentina. ...

, near La Rioja, Argentina * The French Colorado, near Rustrel in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

Sports

Colorado Buffaloes The Colorado Buffaloes are the athletic teams that represent the University of Colorado Boulder. The university sponsors 16 varsity sports teams. Both the men's and women's teams are called the Buffaloes (Buffs for short) or, rarely, the Golden ...

, sports teams from the University of Colorado * Sports in Colorado, any sports team from Colorado * Colorado (horse) (1923–1929), British Thoroughbred racehorse * A nickname for

Sport Club Internacional Sport Club Internacional (), commonly known as Internacional, Inter de Porto Alegre, a cidade do Grêmio or simply Inter, is a Brazilian professional Association football, football club based in Porto Alegre. They play in the Campeonato Bras ...

, a Brazilian football team

Transportation

Chevrolet Colorado The Chevrolet Colorado (sharing mechanical commonality with the GMC Canyon) is a series of compact pickup trucks (mid-size since second generation) marketed by American automaker General Motors. They were introduced in 2004 to replace the Chevrol ...

, a pickup truck manufactured by GM ** Holden Colorado, a rebadged Chevrolet Colorado for the Australian market * The USS ''Colorado'', a number of ships built by the United States * Colorado station, a side platformed RTD light rail station in Denver, Colorado, United States * 40th & Colorado station, a side platformed RTD commuter rail station in Denver, Colorado, United States

Arts and entertainment

* ''Colorado'' (1921 film), a silent western film directed by B. Reeves Eason * ''Colorado'' (1940 film), an American Western film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Roy Rogers * Colorado (game), a solitaire card game

Music

* Los Colorados, a Ukrainian polka band * ''Colorado'' (Kabát album), 1994 * ''Colorado'' (Neil Young album), 2019 * "Colorado" (Mikolas Josef song), 2019 * "Colorado" (Sandra Reemer song), 1979 * "Colorado" (Milky Chance song), 2021

Other uses

Colorado Group Limited Colorado Group Limited was an Australian public company that operates a number of retail clothing chains. Major brands include Colorado Adventurewear, Mathers, Williams the Shoemen, JAG, Diana Ferrari, and Pairs. The company is based in Brisba ...

, an Australian clothing chain * The Colorado language, spoken in Ecuador * Colorado low, a meteorological term *

Colorado Party (Paraguay) The National Republican Association (, ANR), also known as the Colorado Party (), is a conservative political party in Paraguay, founded on 11 September 1887 by Bernardino Caballero. Since 1947, the ''colorados'', as they are known, has been d ...

, a political party in Paraguay *

Colorado Party (Uruguay) The Colorado Party (, , PC) is a liberal political party in Uruguay. Its existence can be traced back to the origins of the Uruguayan republic, in the 1830s, and since then until the late 1990s it remained the most dominant political party i ...

, a political party in Uruguay * Colorado Trading & Clothing, a US clothing chain based in Denver, Colorado * Bolivian Colorados Regiment, commonly known as "''Los Colorados de Bolivia''", a prestigious infantry regiment of the Bolivian Army * Colorados (''kolorady''), a negative term for Russian extreme patriots and militants, after the resemblance of the Colorado potato beetle's coloration to the

Ribbon of Saint George The ribbon of Saint George (also known as Saint George's ribbon, the Georgian ribbon; ; and the Guards ribbon in Soviet context) is a Russian military symbol consisting of a black and orange bicolour pattern, with three black and two orange stri ...