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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.
Although the dams have mostly been erased by erosion, a small portion remains as Lava Falls, generally considered the most difficult and dangerous rapids for boaters on the Colorado River. The Colorado then swings sharply south and turns northwest north of Peach Springs , emerging from the Grand Canyon at the Grand Wash Cliffs , where it widens ...
Hostility and mistrust are at the heart of the inability of California and six other states to reach an agreement on the Colorado River. Column: The fight over the Colorado River is a 100-year-old ...
The Colorado River Upper Basin, comprised of Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico, and the Lower Basin, made up of California, Arizona and Nevada, have been quarreling for months over seemingly ...
The Grand Canyon section of the Colorado River, like several other big-water Western rivers, uses a rapids scale developed by Otis R. Marston of 1–10 for rapids, 10 being the most difficult. The International Scale of River Difficulty , which classifies rapids from class I to VI, is more common elsewhere in the US and internationally.
There's no shortage of plans to protect the water source that 40 million people rely on, but states are battling over who should bear the brunt of the sacrifice.
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 Grand Canyon [a] is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in Arizona, United States.The Grand Canyon is 277 miles (446 km) long, up to 18 miles (29 km) wide and attains a depth of over a mile (6,093 feet or 1,857 meters).