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San Juan Mountains

American  

plural noun

  1. a mountain range in SW Colorado and N New Mexico: a part of the Rocky Mountains. Highest peak, Uncompahgre Peak, 14,306 feet (4,360 meters).


San Juan Mountains British  

plural noun

  1. a mountain range in SW Colorado and N New Mexico: part of the Rocky Mountains. Highest peak: Uncompahgre Peak, 4363 m (14 314 ft)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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It’s a little sliver of Nepal in the San Juan Mountains.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026

About 300 miles and two weeks later, Mr. Lee met up with her in the San Juan Mountains near Silverton, Colo. and they hiked together for the rest of the trip.

From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2021

Packer, a prospector and wilderness guide, led five men into the San Juan Mountains of Colorado in February 1874 in search of gold.

From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2021

What: The high-altitude route comes around — or close to — several mountains, including the San Juan Mountains and several “fourteeners,” peaks that exceed 14,000 feet.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2021

Before noon he was in the San Juan Mountains, thick with sturdy oaks, bending their heads before the madroño, that belle of the forest, with her robes of scarlet and her crown of bronze.

From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

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