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Cañon City, Colorado
Cañon City
is a Home Rule Municipality that is the
county seat
and the
most populous municipality
of
Fremont County
,
Colorado
,
United States
. The city population was 16,400 at the
2010 United States Census
. Cañon City straddles the easterly flowing
Arkansas River
and is a popular tourist destination for sightseeing,
whitewater rafting
, and rock climbing. The city is noted for being the location of nine state and four federal
prisons
and penitentiaries, and a welcoming sign says, "Corrections Capital of the World."
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