Colorado River

Colorado River
The Colorado River at Horseshoe Bend, Arizona, a few miles ablo Glen Canyon Dam
Kintras	Unitit States, Mexico
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
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
Lenth	1,450 mi (2,334 km)
Basin	246,000 sq mi (637,137 km2)
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)
- max	384,000 cu ft/s (10,900 m3/s)
- min	422 cu ft/s (12 m3/s)
Cairt o the Colorado River basin
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.