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  2. Upper Marikina River Basin Protected Landscape - Wikipedia

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    From the official protected landscape area, the Marikina River then flows through its namesake city, Marikina. Near the boundary of Marikina and Pasig cities, the river meets the gates of the Manggahan Floodway, a controlled waterway used to prevent flooding in Manila during heavy rains by diverting most of the water of the Marikina towards Laguna de Bay (i.e. Laguna Lake) instead of the Pasig ...

  3. Marikina River - Wikipedia

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    Upper Marikina River Basin. In the Pamitinan Protected Landscape located in Sitio Wawa, Brgy. San Rafael, in Rodriguez, the Marikina River is dammed by Wawa Dam, a structure built during the early 1900s to provide water for Manila. [2] From Rodriguez, the river flows through San Mateo then to its namesake city of Marikina.

  4. List of Colorado area codes - Wikipedia

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    Clickable map of Colorado area codes in blue (with bordering states). [1] The U.S. state of Colorado is served by five telephone area codes of the North American Numbering Plan (NANP). Area code 303 is the original area code assigned to the entire state when the first nationwide telephone numbering plan was created in 1947.

  5. List of drainage basins in Colorado - Wikipedia

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    The location of the State of Colorado in the United States of America. The Gunnison River in the Black Canyon.. This is a list of drainage basins in the U.S. State of Colorado. ...

  6. Watershed delineation - Wikipedia

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    Watershed delineation is the process of identifying the boundary of a watershed, also referred to as a catchment, drainage basin, or river basin. It is an important step in many areas of environmental science, engineering, and management, for example to study flooding, aquatic habitat, or water pollution.

  7. List of rivers and estuaries in Metro Manila - Wikipedia

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    Marikina River: Major channel. Drains water from Marikina, Cainta, Rodriguez, San Mateo and Antipolo in Rizal. as well as some parts of Quezon City. It leads to Pasig River. Marilao River: Major channel. Drains water from Marilao, Meycauayan and as far as the northwestern side of the La Mesa Dam area.

  8. Manggahan Floodway - Wikipedia

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    The Manggahan Floodway is an artificially constructed waterway in Metro Manila, Philippines.The floodway was built in 1986, [1] with the cost of 1.1 billion pesos, in order to reduce flooding along the Pasig River during the rainy season, by diverting the peak water flows of the Marikina River to Laguna de Bay, which serves as a temporary reservoir.

  9. Hydrologic unit system (United States) - Wikipedia

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    Each subregion includes the area drained by a river system, a reach of a river and its tributaries in that reach, a closed basin or basins, or a group of streams forming a coastal drainage area. [6] Regions receive a two-digit code. The following levels are designated by the addition of another two digits. [7]