school me on the USA geographicical boundries.

[sanddawg2121]

Hello everyone!
I am confused to say the least. Can someone PLEASE school me on the geographical boundries.
Just about every website i go to that has a fourm. Will show colorado as a southwest state located in the rocky mountain west. The southwest states commonly known as Arizona-New mexico-colorado-utah. So here is where i am confused. This site classifies colorado as a north central state. We are so far south and west i dont understand how we are classified as north and central. A very perplexing and confusing delimma i am struggling with. Please help me understand this. Maybe it is related too, to much southwest hot sauce has melted my brain and rational thinking process.

[eamarquardt]

This is a pretty good summary:

http://www.census.gov/geo/www/us_regdiv.pdf

Arizona and New Mexico and the West part of Texas are usually considered the Southwest.

California, Oregon, and Washington are the West Coast.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Gus

[Forrest747]

http://www.netstate.com/states/geography/co_geography.htm

Because Colorado is part of the four corners they include it in teh southwest along with NM and AZ

ftp://ftp.epa.gov/wed/ecoregions/co/co_front.pdf
Also Colorado enjoys 6 of teh 7 major ecoregions of the world in one state.

Mrs. Anderson from 6th grade Columbine Elementry would be proud.

[rebapuck]

Just because it's on the Internet doesn't make it true.

I, personally, would consider CO "way over there". Beautiful state.

[Catherine+twins]

When I was growing up in south-eastern Colorado, we were of the opinion that the Southwestern region was the area originally settled by Spanish speakers. So Texas, southern Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, and California. Then Texas became its own place (Republic of Texas, South, and also too hot for those of us used to mountains, even southern mountains), and California became its own place (Republic of California, West Coast, and also too long a drive for those of us in the southern Rockies). So my Southwest is New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado. However, I know that many Americans think New Mexico is part of Mexico, and that Texas and Arizona share a border, so now I'm completely lost.



Catherine

[asianflava]

It's that way because Mike put it that way.