Learning a language implies learning cultural aspects that are unsuspected such as that of the shape of some of the states of the American union. While in most cases the division or the limits is given considering the passing of a river or the presence of a mountain range. In the case of Colorado you can see that is more a square than anything else. And it is not the only one. Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Kansas, all look like squares or even rectangles (Nevada looks like some sort of trapezoid) and obviously there was no creativity whatsoever in marking the limits for those states. Map makers surely are bored when drawing those specific states and surely school students love to simply move their pencils and with four moves finish the map of their own state. In fact, all of us can draw many of states of the Union, especially those that are located in the center.
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