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The Brazos River (/ ˈ b r æ z ə s / ⓘ BRAZ-əs, Spanish:), called the Río de los Brazos de Dios (translated as "The River of the Arms of God") by early Spanish explorers, is the 14th-longest river in the United States at 1,280 miles (2,060 km) from its headwater source at the head of Blackwater Draw, Roosevelt County, New Mexico [2] to its mouth at the Gulf of Mexico with a 45,000-square ...
Brazos River in North Central Texas. Goodbye to a River is a book by John Graves, published in 1960. [1] It is a "semi-historical" account of a canoe trip made by the author during the fall of 1957 down a stretch of the Brazos River in North Central Texas, between Possum Kingdom Dam and Lake Whitney. The book presents both the author's account ...
The De Cordova Bend Dam is a man-made dam on the Brazos River in Hood County, Texas, United States, controlled by the Brazos River Authority. De Cordova Bend Dam forms the 8,300-acre (34 km 2) Lake Granbury. The dam is so named because of the clockwise almost-complete loop in the Brazos River named De Cordova Bend after Jacob De Cordova. The ...
Gabčíkovo Dam on river Danube; Liptovská Mara on river Váh; Orava (reservoir) Sĺňava on river Váh; Starina reservoir; Tajchy artificial water reservoirs in the Štiavnica Mountains; Veľká Domaša on river Ondava; Zemplínska Šírava on river Laborec
Location of Lake Granbury, Texas. Lake Granbury is a North Texas reservoir near Granbury, Texas.It was created in 1969 and is one of three lakes damming the Brazos River.. Lake Granbury is contained by the De Cordova Bend Dam and is a long, narrow lake, encompassed by 103 miles (221 km) of shoreline.
The border of Europe and Asia is here defined as from the Kara Sea, along the Ural Mountains and Ural River to the Caspian Sea.While the crest of the Caucasus Mountains is the geographical border with Asia in the south, Georgia, and to a lesser extent Armenia and Azerbaijan, are politically and culturally often associated with Europe; rivers in these countries are therefore included.
Blue dots on a map circulating widely on social media show weirs that are still in place, not dams removed before Valencia flooding.
The water rights to the lake are allocated to the city of Waco and the Brazos River Authority, although the lake is owned by the United States government. [26] There are numerous industries in the area that rely on water from the lake, including Purvis Industries, Packless Industries, and American Industrial Lifting Products.