<P> The Four Corners is part of the high Colorado Plateau . This makes it a center for weather systems, which stabilize on the plateau then proceed eastward through Colorado and into the central states . This weather system creates snow and rain fall over the central United States . </P> <P> Protected areas in the Four Corners area include Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Hovenweep National Monument, Mesa Verde National Park, and Monument Valley . Mountain Ranges in the Four Corners include Sleeping Ute Mountains, Abajo Mountains, and the Chuska Mountains . </P> <P> Six governments have jurisdictional boundaries at the Four Corners Monument: the states of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah, as well as the tribal governments of the Navajo Nation and Ute Mountain Ute Tribe . The Four Corners Monument itself is administered by the Navajo Nation Department of Parks and Recreation . Other tribal nations within the Four Corners region include the Hopi and other Ute . The Four Corners is home to the capital of the Navajo tribal government at Window Rock, Arizona . The Ute Mountain Ute Tribal headquarters are located at Towaoc, Colorado . </P> <P> The Four Corners region is mostly rural . The economic hub, largest city, and only metropolitan area in the region is Farmington, New Mexico . The populated settlement closest to the center of Four Corners is Teec Nos Pos, Arizona . Other cities in the region include Cortez and Durango in Colorado; Monticello and Blanding in Utah; Kayenta and Chinle in Arizona; and Shiprock, Aztec, and Bloomfield in New Mexico . The largest cities in each of the Four Corner States are: Phoenix, Arizona; Denver, Colorado; Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Salt Lake City, Utah . </P>

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