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The Colorado River (Spanish: Río Colorado) is one of the principal rivers (along with the Rio Grande) in the Southwestern United States and in northern Mexico. The 1,450-mile-long (2,330 km) river, the 5th longest in the United States, drains an expansive, arid watershed that encompasses parts of seven U.S. states and two Mexican ...
Il y a 5 jours · Colorado River, major river of North America, rising in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, U.S., and flowing generally west and south for 1,450 miles (2,330 kilometres) into the Gulf of California in northwestern Mexico.
At 1,450 miles long, the Colorado River is the sixth longest in the nation, passing through seven states and two nations. The Colorado basin spans 260,000 square miles, about 8 percent of the continental U.S. The river flows through 11 national parks and monuments.
The Colorado River begins at La Poudre Pass in the Southern Rocky Mountains of Colorado, at 10,184 ft above sea level. After a short run south, it turns west below Grand Lake, then south at 1,450 mi. gaining strength from many tributaries to the Sea of Cortez in northwestern Mexico, where it ends.
The Colorado is the premier river of the American Southwest. Rising in the mountains of Colorado and Wyoming, this river and its tributaries provide water and hydroelectric power for nearly 35 million people in the United States and Mexico, as well as habitat for several fish species found only in this drainage basin.
14 août 2021 · At 2,330 kilometers, the Colorado River is the United States' s fifth-longest river from its source in the Rocky Mountains to its mouth in the Gulf of California. It flows through the US states of Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, and California, and Mexican states of Baja California and Sonora.
25 juil. 2023 · The Colorado River is a vital source of water, hydropower, recreation, ecosystem services, and other amenities for people in the seven basin states (Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, and California), over two dozen federally recognized tribes, and Mexico.
22 mai 2023 · Arizona, California and Nevada have agreed to take less water from the drought-strained Colorado River, a breakthrough agreement that, for now, keeps the river from falling so low that it would...
14 févr. 2023 · Seven Western states, which include some of the fastest-growing in the nation, get some of their water from the Colorado River. How it is distributed is guided by the 100-year-old Colorado River Compact, which has come under intense scrutiny in recent years as a two-decade-long drought has shrunk supply even as demand has risen.
22 mai 2023 · The Colorado River system stretches across seven states in the Southwest and Mexico, and a complicated set of decades-old laws determines who gets water from the river, and how much.
