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Mount Shavano
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Mount Shavano, with an altitude of 14,229 feet (4,337 meters), is one of the fourteeners of the US state of Colorado. It is the 17th highest peak in Colorado. It lies on the Continental Divide just west of the Arkansas River and the town of Salida in Chaffee County. Mount Shavano lies north of Mount Ouray and Mount Chipeta and south of the Collegiate Peaks, Mount Princeton, Mount Harvard, and Mount Yale in the central part of the Sawatch Range. Mount Shavano is famous for the Angel of Shavano. The Angel is a snow formation in the image of an angel that emerges in the saddle of the mountain during snow melt each spring.

Mount Shavano is located within the San Isabel National Forest and was named after Chief Shavano of the Ute Tribe.