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The Gila River (/ ˈ h iː l ə /; 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 ...
The Gila River, a tributary of the Colorado along the width of southern Arizona, is shown highlighted on a map of the southwestern United States. 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 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 Gila River is 650 miles (1,050 km) long, and extends from southwestern New Mexico to its confluence with the Colorado River near Yuma. While the upper Gila River is free-flowing, the portion of the river below the Phoenix area is usually either a trickle or completely dry because of the diversion of water for irrigation. The only major dam ...
The San Carlos River is a 37-mile (60 km) long [1] tributary of the Gila River in southeast Arizona, United States. The river drains an arid region of 1,026 square miles (2,660 km 2 ), situated mostly within the San Carlos Indian Reservation .
Cliff dwellings border stream valleys, especially along the Middle Fork of the Gila River. Rafting the Gila River is popular in the spring when water levels in the river are high due to snowmelt in the higher mountains. Because it is a wilderness, visitors must minimize their impact on the natural environment by observing the Leave No Trace ...
The Gila River across central-south Arizona, arising in southwestern New Mexico, USA Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
[citation needed] In the United States, there are at least six exceptions, however, where the boundary is one bank of the river rather than the thread of the channel: The boundary between New Hampshire and Vermont is the west bank of the Connecticut River. This was established as the eastern boundary of New York by a grant of King Charles II in ...