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The Colorado River hydrologic region has a surface area of about 20,000 sq mi (52,000 km 2), and includes all of Imperial County, and portions of Riverside, San Bernardino, and San Diego. With an average of 5.5 in (140 mm) rain annually, this is the most arid hydrologic region of the state.
The river's first diversion is here at its headwater. The Grand Ditch redirects water from the Never Summer Mountains, which would have flowed into the Colorado River, to instead flow across the divide through La Poudre Pass to irrigate farmland to the east. Near the source of the Colorado River in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
California State University, Fullerton (CSUF or Cal State Fullerton) is a public research university in Fullerton, California.With a total enrollment of more than 41,000, it has the largest student body of the California State University (CSU) system, and its graduate student body of more than 5,000 is one of the largest in the CSU and in all of California. [7]
A visual journey along the Colorado River, from the headwaters to Mexico, that shows the environmental toll on the depleting resource.
The following is a tree demonstrating the points at which the major and minor tributaries of the Colorado River branch off from the main river and from each other. (Source-upstream) Fraser River; Muddy Creek; Blue River. Snake River; Tenmile Creek; Piney River; Eagle River. Gore Creek; Roaring Fork River. Fryingpan River; Crystal River; Plateau ...
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 states.
Southern California's water district installs a quake-resistant pipe along the Colorado River Aqueduct to prevent a major spill.
The Colorado River Aqueduct, or CRA, is a 242 mi (389 km) water conveyance in Southern California in the United States, operated by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. The aqueduct impounds water from the Colorado River at Lake Havasu on the California– Arizona border, west across the Mojave and Colorado deserts to the ...