Colorado River
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Colorado River | |
Kintras | Unitit States, Mexico |
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States | Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, Californie, Baja Californie, Sonora |
Tributaries | |
- left | Fraser River, Blue River, Eagle River, Roaring Fork River, Gunnison River, Dolores River, San Juan River, Little Colorado River, Bill Williams River, Gila River |
- right | Green River, Dirty Devil River, Escalante River, Kanab River, Virgin River, Hardy River |
Ceeties | Glenwood Springs, CO, Grand Junction, CO, Moab, UT, Page, AZ, Bullhead City, AZ, Lake Havasu City, AZ, Yuma, AZ, San Luis Rio Colorado, SON |
Soorce | La Poudre Pass |
- location | Rocky Moontains, Colorado, Unitit States |
- elevation | 10,184 ft (3,104 m) |
- coordinates | 40°28′20″N 105°49′34″W / 40.47222°N 105.82611°W [1] |
Mooth | Gulf o Californie |
- location | Colorado River Delta, Baja Californie–Sonora, Mexico |
- elevation | 0 ft (0 m) |
- coordinates | 31°54′00″N 114°57′03″W / 31.90000°N 114.95083°WCoordinates: 31°54′00″N 114°57′03″W / 31.90000°N 114.95083°W [1] |
Lenth | 1,450 mi (2,334 km) [2] |
Basin | 246,000 sq mi (637,137 km2) [2] |
Discharge | for mooth (average virgin flow), max an min at Topock, AZ, 300 mi (480 km) frae the mooth |
- average | 22,500 cu ft/s (637 m3/s) [3] |
- max | 384,000 cu ft/s (10,900 m3/s) [4] |
- min | 422 cu ft/s (12 m3/s) [5] |
Cairt o the Colorado River basin
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Wikimedia Commons: Colorado River | |
The Colorado River (Spaingie: Río Colorado) is ane o the principal rivers o the Soothwastren Unitit States an northren Mexico (the ither bein the Rio Grande). The 1,450-mile (2,330 km) Colorado River drains an expansive, arid wattershed that encompasses pairts o seiven U.S. an twa Mexican states. Stairtin in the central Rocky Moontains in the U.S., the river flows generally soothwast athort the Colorado Plateau an throu the Grand Canyon afore reachin Loch Mead on the Arizona–Nevada border, whaur it turns sooth taewart the internaitional border. Efter enterin Mexico, the Colorado approaches the maistly dry Colorado River Delta at the tip o the Gulf o Californie atween Baja California an Sonora.
References[eedit | eedit soorce]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Colorado River". Geographic Names Information System. Unitit States Geological Survey. February 8, 1980. Retrieved February 18, 2012.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kammerer, J.C. (May 1990). "Largest Rivers in the United States". U.S. Geological Survey. Retrieved July 2, 2010.
- ↑ Nowak, Kenneth C. (April 2, 2012). "Stochastic Streamflow Simulation at Interdecadal Time Scales and Implications to Water Resources Management in the Colorado River Basin" (PDF). Center for Advanced Decision Support for Water and Environmental Systems. University of Colorado. p. 114. Retrieved July 11, 2013.
- ↑ Wiltshire, Gilbert & Rogers 2010, p. 102.
- ↑ "USGS Gage #09424000 on the Colorado River near Topock, AZ – Daily Data". National Water Information System. U.S. Geological Survey. February 14, 1935. Retrieved April 21, 2012.
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