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The Rocky Mountains or the Rockies (Rocky Mountains), is a group of mountain ranges, which lies west of the North American continent, where stretches 4,800 kilometers from the northern parties to the jurisdiction of British Columbia, Canada to New Mexico in the Southwest of the United States of America, and has a higher altitude peaks of a summit Albert 4,399 meters. States that contain these mountains called the mountain states, the Rocky Mountain and is considered a source of 14 rivers, including the Colorado and Missouri rivers.

These mountains have been formed to the period from 55 to 80 million years old, have humans began to settle in these mountains at the end of the last ice age, and with the arrival of the first European missions and the most famous missions Sir Alexander Mackenzie and Lewis and Clark and their exploration of the mountains of the region's wealth of minerals began and fur encourage economic exploitation of Mountains and attract new settlers, but this did not make the steep slopes of the Rocky Mountain densely populated in any stage.

Currently it has many public parks and reserves established to preserve the natural wealth of these mountains, where the Rocky Mountain is one of the major destinations for tourists wishing Baltkhiem, climbing, fishing, cycling and skiing

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