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The following is a tree demonstrating the points at which the major and minor tributaries of the Colorado River branch off from the main river and from each other. (Source-upstream) Fraser River; Muddy Creek; Blue River. Snake River; Tenmile Creek; Piney River; Eagle River. Gore Creek; Roaring Fork River. Fryingpan River; Crystal River; Plateau ...
Green River (Colorado River tributary) (5 C, 22 P) Pages in category "Tributaries of the Colorado River in Wyoming" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
2.1 Colorado River watershed. ... Cheyenne River. Belle Fourche River; ... Rock Creek (Medicine Bow River tributary) Salt River; Shell Creek;
The Cheyenne River (Lakota: Wakpá Wašté; "Good River" [2]), also written Chyone, [3] referring to the Cheyenne people who once lived there, [4] is a tributary of the Missouri River in the U.S. states of Wyoming and South Dakota. It is approximately 295 miles (475 km) long and drains an area of 24,240 square miles (62,800 km 2). [5]
Tributaries of the Colorado River in Wyoming (1 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Tributaries of the Colorado River" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
The Colorado runs 1,450 mi (2,330 km) from the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf of California, draining parts of seven U.S. states and two Mexican states. The river system is one of the most heavily developed in the world, with fifteen dams on the main stem of the Colorado [citation needed] and hundreds more on tributaries.
[72] [73] Flows originating above Lees Ferry represent the majority of Colorado River runoff. Tributaries between there and Imperial Dam near the US–Mexico border contribute a further 1.1 million acre-feet (1.4 km 3), [74] and the Gila–Salt River system historically accounted for another 1.7 million acre-feet (2.1 km 3).
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