Tabeguache
Peak

The peak takes its name from the Tabeguache band of Ute people, the largest of the Ute bands, whose name is usually translated as 'People of Sun Mountain' — from tava, meaning sun. Older forms of the name include Mogwatavungwantsingwu, Mount Tabequache, and Tabeguache Mountain. Linguists and climbers have never fully settled the pronunciation: William Bright renders it TAB-uh-wahch, while mountaineer Louis Dawson favored tab-uh-wash, stressing the first syllable.

At 455 feet, Tabeguache's prominence sits well above the 300-foot rise Colorado's fourteener lists use to separate a ranked summit from a subpeak, but it is among the lowest prominence figures on the 58-peak roster. Because its summit sits barely half a mile from Shavano's, guidebooks and climbers have long treated the two as a single outing, and Tabeguache rarely turns up in trip accounts on its own.