Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Gila River (/ ˈhiːlə /; O'odham [Pima]: Keli Akimel or simply Akimel, Quechan: Haa Siʼil, Maricopa language: Xiil[4]) is a 649-mile-long (1,044 km) [2] tributary of the Colorado River flowing through New Mexico and Arizona in the United States. The river drains an arid watershed of nearly 60,000 square miles (160,000 km 2) that lies ...
The Salt River (at Phoenix) is its tributary. This is a List of tributaries of the Gila River, the final river drainage of the Colorado River, and covers the entire width of southern Arizona. The headwaters of the Gila River begin in the Gila National Forest of New Mexico. The northern branch tributary to the Gila River in the Gila National ...
The Gila Valley of Yuma County, Arizona is a small valley surrounding the Gila River at its confluence with the Colorado River, the Colorado being the border between California and Arizona, and locally southwest of Yuma – Baja California, and Sonora states, Mexico . The valley extends only 10 miles (16 km) from its confluence to the northern ...
The Gila Wilderness is located in southwest New Mexico, north of Silver City and east of Reserve. It contains the West Fork, Middle Fork and much of the East Fork of the Gila River; riverside elevations of around 4,850 feet (1,480 m) are the lowest in the wilderness. The Mogollon Mountains traverse an arc across the wilderness.
The Bill Williams River is a 46.3-mile-long (74.5 km) [5] river in west-central Arizona where it, along with one of its tributaries, the Santa Maria River, form the boundary between Mohave County to the north and La Paz County to the south. [6] It is a major drainage westwards into the Colorado River of the Lower Colorado River Valley south of ...
Coordinates: 32°58′34″N 109°22′19″W. The Park Avenue Bridge over the San Francisco River in Clifton, Arizona. The San Francisco River is a 159-mile-long (256 km) [1] river in the southwest United States, [2] the largest tributary of the Upper Gila River. It originates near Alpine, Arizona and flows into New Mexico before reentering ...
Map of the Colorado River drainage basin The principal tributaries of the Colorado River of North America are the Gila River , the San Juan River , the Green River , and the Gunnison River . Tributary tree
Salt River Valley. Coordinates: 33.3811546°N 112.3129333°W. Map of the Gila River watershed. The Salt River Valley is an extensive valley on the Salt River in central Arizona, which contains the Phoenix Metropolitan Area. Although this geographic term still identifies the area, the name "Valley of the Sun" popularly replaced the usage ...