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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 states.
In the Colorado River Basin, Matthews said, the data are simply “validating truths already self-evident.” “Those states have difficult choices to make, and I think they already knew that.
"Six out the seven states within the Colorado River Compact rank in the top 10 of most water stressed states in the United States." The Atlas finds that across the globe, 25 countries experience ...
This is a list of rivers in the continental United States by average discharge (streamflow) in cubic feet per second. All rivers with average discharge more than 15,000 cubic feet per second are listed.
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 supplies, on average, about 25% of the water supplies in coastal Southern California, while the region also gets water from Northern California through the State Water Project, ...
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
The Colorado River is an approximately 862-mile-long (1,387 km) river [5] in the U.S. state of Texas. It is the 11th longest river in the United States [ 5 ] and the longest river with both its source and its mouth within Texas.