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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 (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.
Colorado River Delta as seen from space (2004); Montague Island is the large island in the center.. Montague Island, known in Spanish as Isla Montague, is an island at the mouth of the Colorado River in the municipality of Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico, and is part of the Colorado River Delta and part of a broader region called the Salton Trough.
A visual journey along the Colorado River, from the headwaters to Mexico, that shows the environmental toll on the depleting resource. The Colorado River: Where the west quenches its thirst Skip ...
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.
Prior to the construction of major dams along its route, the Colorado River fed one of the largest desert estuaries in the world. Spread across the northernmost end of the Gulf of California, the Colorado River delta's vast riparian , freshwater, brackish, and tidal wetlands once covered 7,810 km 2 (1,930,000 acres) and supported a large ...
The analysis by researchers with the World Resources Institute found that all seven states that rely on the Colorado River face high or extremely high water stress.
Philips Point was a promontory on the north east bank of the Colorado River in Sonora, Mexico, that marked the mouth of the tidal estuary of the Colorado River in the later 19th century. "Philips Point may be regarded as the head of deep-water navigation in the Colorado River.