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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 ...
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.
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.
Dams of the Brazos River Authority — located on the Brazos River in central Texas. Pages in category "Brazos River Authority dams" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
Blue dots on a map circulating widely on social media show weirs that are still in place, not dams removed before Valencia flooding.
Often regarded as largest completely pristine river system in the world [4] 4 Pechora: Russia: 1,809 kilometres (1,124 mi) 322,000 square kilometres (124,000 sq mi) 4,533 cubic metres per second (160,100 cu ft/s) 143.1 cubic kilometres (34.3 cu mi) Arctic Ocean: Once the subject of a possible transfer of water into the Volga. 5 Atrato: Colombia
The Brazos River Authority or BRA was created in 1929 by the Texas Legislature as a quasi-governmental entity to manage the Brazos River as a water resource in Texas. [1] It was originally named the Brazos River Conservation and Reclamation District and renamed to the current name in 1953.
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