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Locality map showing the Rio Grande rift extending from southern Colorado to Chihuahua, Mexico. The Rio Grande follows this rift for much of its course. The Rio Grande rift is a north-trending continental rift zone. It separates the Colorado Plateau in the west from the interior of the North American craton on the east. [1] The rift extends ...
It originates in south-central Colorado, in the United States, and flows to the Gulf of Mexico. [11] The Rio Grande drainage basin (watershed) has an area of 182,200 square miles (472,000 km 2); [5] however, the endorheic basins that are adjacent to and within the greater drainage basin of the Rio Grande increase the total drainage-basin area ...
Several major projects have undertaken construction of dams and diversion in the Rio Grande basin. The Rio Grande Project built the Elephant Butte Dam and the Caballo Dam. A number of diversion dams were also constructed in this project, including the Leasburg, Percha, Mesilla, American and Riverside diversion dams. [2] The Middle Rio Grande ...
Location: Zapata / Starr Counties, Texas, United States; Nueva Ciudad Guerrero, Tamaulipas, Mexico: Coordinates: at Falcon Dam: Type: Hydroelectric reservoir: Primary inflows: Rio Grande: Primary outflows: Rio Grande: Basin countries: United States, Mexico: Surface area: 83,654 acres (33,854 ha): Max. depth: 110 ft (34 m): Surface elevation: 301 ft (92 m): Falcon International Reservoir ...
The WWF's assessment of the Rio Conchos rates its biological distinctiveness as "globally outstanding" and its conservation status as critically endangered, putting it in the "priority I" category of needing conservation attention. [4] The Rio Conchos contains the only free-flowing large river environment left in the Rio Grande drainage basin.
Some argue those in the Rio Grande basin have been overlooked by federal drought officials while facing just as many problems as others in the West. Rio Grande managers eye federal cash for ...
The Albuquerque Basin (or Middle Rio Grande Basin [1]) is a structural basin and ecoregion within the Rio Grande rift in central New Mexico. It contains the city of Albuquerque . Geologically, the Albuquerque Basin is a half-graben that slopes down towards the east to terminate on the Sandia and Manzano mountains. [ 2 ]
The drainage within the United states of the Rio Grande Basin from the Junction of the Mexico, New Mexico, and Texas international boundary to and including Amistad Reservoir, but excluding the Pecos River Basin. Texas: 18,700 sq mi (48,000 km 2) HUC1304: 1305 Rio Grande closed basins subregion: The Estancia, Tularosa Valley, Salt Basin and ...