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Colorado Plateau

Range Type	Highland or plateau
Highest Point	Mount Peale (12,721 ft/3877 m)
Countries	United States
States/Provinces	Arizona (40%), Utah (31%), New Mexico (21%), Colorado (7%) (numbers are approximate percentage of range area)
Area	126,227 sq mi / 326,927 sq km Area may include lowland areas
Extent	513 mi / 826 km North-South 440 mi / 709 km East-West
Center Lat/Long	36° 31' N; 110° 2' W
Map Link	Microsoft Bing Map
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Map of Colorado Plateau
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Other Ranges: To go to pages for other ranges either click on the map above, or on range names in the hierarchy snapshot below, which show the parent, siblings, and children of the Colorado Plateau.

Intermountain West	Level 2 (Parent)
British Columbia Interior	Level 3 (Sibling)
Columbia Mountains	Level 3 (Sibling)
Columbia Plateau	Level 3 (Sibling)
Great Basin Ranges	Level 3 (Sibling)
Colorado Plateau	Level 3
Roan Cliffs	Level 4 (Child)
Central Utah Plateaus	Level 4 (Child)
Canyonlands	Level 4 (Child)
Grand Canyon Plateaus	Level 4 (Child)
Navajo Area	Level 4 (Child)
Central Arizona Highlands	Level 4 (Child)
Southeast Colorado Plateau	Level 4 (Child)
Southwest Basins and Ranges	Level 3 (Sibling)

Major Peaks of the Colorado Plateau

Ten Highest Peaks
Rank	Peak Name	ft	m	Range4
1.	Mount Peale	12,721	3877	Canyonlands
2.	Mount Mellenthin	12,645	3854	Canyonlands
3.	Humphreys Peak	12,633	3851	Central Arizona Highlands
4.	Mount Tukuhnikivatz	12,482	3805	Canyonlands
5.	Agassiz Peak	12,356	3766	Central Arizona Highlands
6.	Mount Waas	12,331	3758	Canyonlands
7.	Manns Peak	12,272	3741	Canyonlands
8.	Mount Laurel	12,271	3740	Canyonlands
9.	Mount Tomasaki	12,239	3730	Canyonlands
10.	Pilot Mountain	12,200+	3719+	Canyonlands
Sub-peaks are excluded from this list. List may not be complete, since only summits in the PBC Database are included.

Child Range High Points
Rank	Peak Name	ft	m	Range4
1.	Mount Peale	12,721	3877	Canyonlands
2.	Humphreys Peak	12,633	3851	Central Arizona Highlands
3.	Delano Peak	12,169	3709	Central Utah Plateaus
4.	Chicoma Mountain	11,561	3524	Southeast Colorado Plateau
5.	Navajo Mountain	10,346	3153	Navajo Area
6.	Strawberry Peak	10,335	3150	Roan Cliffs
7.	Kaibab Plateau High Point	9200+	2804+	Grand Canyon Plateaus

Photos of Peaks in the Colorado Plateau

Mount Peale Tukunikivatz, Peale, Mellenthin from left to right from the south (1981-08-03). Photo by John Vitz. Click here for larger-size photo.	Mount Mellenthin Tukunikivatz, Peale, Mellenthin from left to right from the south (1981-08-03). Photo by John Vitz. Click here for larger-size photo.
Humphreys Peak Looking up to Humphreys Peak (left) and Mount Agassiz (right) from Hart Prairie (1989-05-04).	Mount Tukuhnikivatz Tukunikivatz, Peale, Mellenthin from left to right from the south (1981-08-03). Photo by John Vitz. Click here for larger-size photo.
Agassiz Peak Agassiz Peak and Fremont Peak as seen from the Mt. Humphreys trail (2014-01-11). Photo by Mark McCormick. Click here for larger-size photo.	Mount Waas Me on Mount Waas, my final Utah County Highpoint! (2017-09-17). Photo by J.J. Fernandez. Click here for larger-size photo.
Manns Peak Taken while climbing Manns and Tomasaki, UT (2008-07-29). Photo by Jerry Beals. Click here for larger-size photo.	Mount Tomasaki Taken while climbing Manns and Tomasaki, UT (2008-07-29). Photo by Jerry Beals. Click here for larger-size photo.
Delano Peak Delano summit from the west (2018-09-23). Photo by Bill Carpenter. Click here for larger-size photo.	Mount Baldy Mount Baldy as seen from the viewpoint on the Skyline National Recreation Trail at 10,582 ft (2017-08-14). Photo by Chloe Jennings-White. Click here for larger-size photo.

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