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Car Hire Denver
: Introduction
Car Hire Denver is the
capital and the most populous city of the U.S. 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 at east of the confluence of Cherry Creek
with the South Platte River, about 12 to 15 miles, east of the foothills of the
Rocky Mountains.
Car hire Denver is also
known as The Mile-High City as its official elevation is exactly one mile above
sea level. The city claims to have the 10th largest central business district in
the United States.
Denver was founded during the Pikes Peak Gold Rush in the Kansas Territory in 1858.That
summer, a group of gold prospectors from Lawrence, Kansas arrived and established
Montana City on the banks of the South Platte River. This was the first settlement
in what was later to become the city of Denver. The Montana City site is now Grant-Frontier
Park and includes mining equipment and a log cabin replica.
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