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This is a list of drainage basins in the U.S. State of Colorado. Colorado encompasses the headwaters of several important rivers. The state is divided into two major hydrographic regions by the Continental Divide of the Americas .
[a] Colorado has five municipalities above 10,000 feet (3,048 m) elevation, 40 above 8,000 feet (2,438 m) elevation, 115 above 6,000 feet (1,829 m) elevation, 256 above 4,000 feet (1,219 m) elevation, and all 273 municipalities are above 3,350 feet (1,021 m) elevation. The Town of Carbonate, Colorado is technically the highest elevation ...
The Rocky Mountains within Colorado contain 54 peaks that are 14,000 ft (4,300 m) or higher, known as fourteeners. [10] The mountains are timbered with conifers and aspen to the tree line, at an elevation of about 12,000 ft (3,700 m) in southern Colorado to about 10,500 ft (3,200 m) in northern Colorado; above this only alpine vegetation grows ...
Location: Pitkin and Eagle counties: Coordinates: 1]: Type: reservoir: Part of: Colorado River Basin: Primary inflows: Fryingpan River: Primary outflows: Fryingpan River: Managing agency: United States Bureau of Reclamation: Built: 1968: Surface area: 997 acres (403 ha) [2]: Water volume: 101,280 acre⋅ft (124,930,000 m 3) [2]: Surface elevation: 2,369 m (7,772 ft) [1]: Ruedi Reservoir is a ...
The Alva B. Adams Tunnel is the principal component of the largest transmountain water project in Colorado, the Colorado-Big Thompson Project (C-BT). The tunnel transfers water from the western slope of the Colorado River drainage to the eastern Front Range of Colorado. It is 13.1 miles (21.1 km) long, with a concrete lined diameter of 9.75 ...
The names of the 17 Colorado rivers with a drainage basin of more than 10,000 square kilometers (3,900 sq mi) are shown in bold. Oceans and streams outside of Colorado are shown in italics. Pacific Ocean. Gulf of California. Colorado River [b] Green River. Yampa River 21,506 km 2 (8,304 mi 2) Little Snake River 10,629 km 2 (4,104 mi 2)
The location of the State of Colorado in the United States of America. An enlargeable map of the State of Colorado. This is an alphabetical list of some notable lakes and reservoirs in the U.S. State of Colorado. Most of the larger lakes in Colorado are either reservoirs or dam-enhanced natural lakes.
The Lower Colorado water resource region is one of 21 major geographic areas, or regions, in the first level of classification used by the United States Geological Survey to divide and sub-divide the United States into successively smaller hydrologic units. These geographic areas contain either the drainage area of a major river, or the ...