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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
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 ...
Map showing the Upper and Lower Colorado River Basin, and adjacent areas supplied by Colorado River water. The Colorado River Basin consists of 246,000 square miles (640,000 km 2), making it the seventh largest drainage basin in North America. [1] About 238,600 square miles (618,000 km 2), or 97 percent of the basin, is in the United States. [40]
Relief map of the U.S. State of Colorado. This is a list of some important mountain passes in the Rocky Mountains of the U.S. State of Colorado . Mountain passes and highway summits traversed by improved roads
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)
Traversed by Colorado State Highway 149, notably lower than Slumgullion Pass dividing just tributaries of Gunnison River that is also traversed by SH 149. 37°29′00″N 106°48′11″W / 37.48333°N 106.80306°W / 37.48333; -106
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.
View of Middle Park near Granby, Colorado. Middle Park (elev. 8,000 ft or 2,400 m) is a high basin in the Rocky Mountains of north-central Colorado in the United States. It is located in Grand County, on the southwest slope of Rocky Mountain National Park, approximately 50 miles (80 km) west of (and across the continental divide from) Boulder.