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The Palo Verde Valley (Spanish: Valle de Palo Verde) [1] [2] is located in the Lower Colorado River Valley, next to the eastern border of Southern California with Arizona, United States. [3] It is located on the Colorado Desert within the Sonoran Desert south of the Parker Valley.
Palo Verde (Spanish for "Green Stick"; Mojave: Hanyomalivah) [4] [1] is a census-designated place (CDP) in Imperial County, California.Its name comes from the native desert tree, Palo Verde (Parkinsonia florida), which in turn takes its name from the Spanish for stick (palo) and green (verde), sharing its name with the Palo Verde Valley, the valley it is located.
With the Hobson brothers from Ventura County, they bought Blythe's estate and formed the Palo Verde Land and Water Company. [ 14 ] [ 16 ] During 1911–1912, W.F. Holt, who helped develop nearby Imperial Valley , was the company's general manager.
The river flows through the Parker Valley, much of which belongs to the Colorado River Indian Reservation, and then the Palo Verde Valley, where it is crossed by Interstate 10 near Blythe, California. The small Headgate Rock Dam removes water for irrigation in the Parker Valley and the Palo Verde Dam provides
Palo Verde Valley, Palo Verde Mountains; Park Valley (Arizona) San Cristobal Valley Valleys in the Gila River Valley corridor. Gila Valley (Graham County) ...
Imperial Valley. Calexico–Mexicali; Palo Verde Valley; Yuha Desert; Inland Southern California. Inland Empire. Cucamonga Valley; San Jacinto Valley; San Bernardino ...
There are three main deserts in California: the Mojave Desert, the Colorado Desert, and the Great Basin Desert. [5]: 408 The Mojave Desert is bounded by the Tehachapi Mountains on the northwest, the San Gabriel and San Bernardino Mountains on the south, and extends eastward to California's borders with Arizona and Nevada; it also forms portions of northwest Arizona.
Thomas Henry Blythe Palo Verde Valley aerial. The Blythe Intake is the place of the first irrigation canal to feed water to the Palo Verde Valley in 1877. It is located just north of Blythe, California in Riverside County, California. The Blythe Intake was designated a California Historic Landmark (No.948) on March 1, 1982.