Moving to Denver Colorado? Denver is the capital and
the most populous city of the state of Colorado. Denver is located in the South Platte River Valley on the High Plains just
east of the Front Range of the Southern Rocky Mountains. The Denver downtown district is located immediately east of the confluence
of Cherry Creek with the South Platte River, approximately 15 miles east of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Denver
is nicknamed the Mile-High City--elevation is exactly one mile, or 5,280 feet above sea level.
The 5-county Denver-Aurora Metropolitan Statistical Area
had an estimated 2007 population of 2,464,866 and ranked as the 21st most populous U.S. metropolitan statistical area The
city has the 10th largest central business district in the United States.
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