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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 ...
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 ...
Elephant Butte Reservoir is a reservoir on the southern part of the Rio Grande in the U.S. state of New Mexico, 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Truth or Consequences.The reservoir is the 84th largest man-made lake in the United States and the largest in New Mexico by total surface area and peak volume.
Map of the Middle Rio Grande Basin showing a section of the Rio Grande Valley (tan) before entering the Socorro Basin to the south. The entire Rio Grande Valley in New Mexico follows the Rio Grande Rift, a structural rift caused by the westward extension of the continental basement of the Western United States during the past 35 million years.
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 ...
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 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.