Cottonwood Peak (Colorado)

Cottonwood Peak yana da  babban taron tsaunuka akan iyakar da yankunan Custer da Saguache suka raba, a Colorado, Amurka.

 Bayani 
Cottonwood Peak an saita shi akan ƙwanƙolin Sangre de Cristo Range wanda yanki ne na tsaunin Rocky . Shine babban taro na bakwai mafi girma a gundumar Custer da kuma 191st-mafi girma a Colorado.  Dutsen yana da  kudu da Coaldale a cikin Sangre de Cristo Wilderness, a kan ƙasar da San Isabel National Forest da Rio Grande National Forest ke gudanarwa.  Ruwan hazo daga tsaunukan gabas na dutsen ya malalo zuwa tafkin Creek → Texas Creek → Kogin Arkansas, yayin da gangaren yamma ta malalo zuwa kwarin San Luis . Taimakon Topographic yana da mahimmanci yayin da taron ya tashi sama da  sama da Garner Creek a cikin 1.5 mil (2.4 km). Hawan taron kolin ya ƙunshi mil 12 na tafiya tare da tsayin ƙafa 5,400. Mike Garratt, Bob Martin (1984), Colorado's High Thirteeners, Johnson Books, , p. 77. Hukumar {asar Amirka ta kar~i sunan saman dutsen a hukumance akan Sunayen Geographic . 

 Yanayi 
Dangane da tsarin rarraba yanayi na Köppen, Cottonwood Peak yana cikin yankin yanayi mai tsayi mai tsayi tare da sanyi, lokacin sanyi, da sanyi zuwa lokacin zafi.  Saboda tsayinsa, yana samun hazo duk shekara, kamar dusar ƙanƙara a lokacin sanyi da kuma kamar tsawa a lokacin rani, tare da lokacin bushewa a ƙarshen bazara. Masu hawan hawa za su iya tsammanin ruwan sama da rana, ƙanƙara, da walƙiya daga damina ta yanayi a ƙarshen Yuli da Agusta.