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Colorado River

Colorado River Notes

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Colorado River The major river of the American Southwest that carves the Grand Canyon.
Green River The largest tributary of the Colorado, which joins it in Canyonlands National Park.
Hoover Dam The arch-gravity dam on the Arizona-Nevada border that creates Lake Mead.
John Wesley Powell The one-armed explorer who led the 1869 expedition down the Green and Colorado Rivers.
Lake Powell The reservoir created by the Glen Canyon Dam, named after a famous explorer.
Salton Sea The saline lake in California created by a 1905 breach in a Colorado River irrigation canal.
Gila River A major tributary that joins the Colorado River near Yuma, Arizona.
Imperial Valley The agricultural region in California irrigated by the All-American Canal from the Colorado.
London Bridge The 1831 structure relocated from England to Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
Glen Canyon Dam The dam in Arizona that regulates the upper Colorado River and forms Lake Powell.
Yuma The Arizona city near the Mexican border where the Gila River meets the Colorado.
Gulf of California The body of water where the Colorado River historically emptied (also called the Sea of Cortez).
Never Summer Mountains The mountain range in Colorado containing Poudre Pass, the river's headwaters.
Havasu City The Arizona city located along the Colorado River that is home to the relocated London Bridge.
Grand Canyon The 277-mile-long gorge in Arizona carved by the Colorado River over millions of years.
Gunnison River A tributary of the Colorado known for carving the Black Canyon in Colorado.
Canyonlands National Park The Utah park where the Green and Colorado Rivers meet at "The Confluence."
All-American Canal The world's largest irrigation canal, which carries Colorado River water to the Imperial Valley.
Lake Mead The largest reservoir in the U.S. by capacity, formed by the Hoover Dam.
Poudre Pass The specific location in the Rocky Mountains where the Colorado River begins.
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