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The project consists of three major components: A 280 cubic feet per second (7.9 m³/s) pumping plant on the Animas River just south of downtown Durango, Colorado; An underground pipeline to carry project water from the pumping plant to the off-stream reservoir; and; the reservoir, Lake Nighthorse, at Ridges Basin, southwest of Durango.
The La Plata basin is bounded by the Brazilian Highlands to the north, the Andes Mountains to the west, and Patagonia to the south. The watershed extends mostly northward from the source of the Río de la Plata for roughly 2,400 kilometres (1,500 mi), as far as Brasília and Cuiabá in Brazil and Sucre in Bolivia, spanning latitudes between 14 and 37 degrees south and longitudes between 43 and ...
Lake Nighthorse is a reservoir created by the 270 feet (82 m) high Ridges Basin Dam [1] southwest of Durango in La Plata County Colorado.As part of the Animas-La Plata Water Project, Lake Nighthorse provides water storage for tribal and water right claim-holders along the Animas River.
The La Plata had recently been opened to commerce after the Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas had been forced from office. In addition to charting the waterways of the Río de la Plata basin, Page was instructed to explore the surrounding countryside and collect natural history specimens for the naturalist Spencer Fullerton Baird at the ...
The Mercosur Waterways diplomatic crisis was a regional diplomatic conflict over the free navigability of the rivers in the Río de la Plata Basin, between the government of Argentina and the rest of the countries of the main waterway of Mercosur, among which are Paraguay, Bolivia, Uruguay and Brazil. Mercosur asked that the toll of the ...
Map of the Río de la Plata Basin. The Platine Wars is a term used by Brazilian historiography to refer to a series of diplomatic and military conflicts along the 19th century between the Empire of Brazil and neighbouring countries in the Río de la Plata Basin.
Surface Water: The La Plata sub-basin's catchment area is 130,200 km 2 and constitutes (4.2%) of the world's fifth largest river basin – the La Plata, extending over 3.1 million km 2, five countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay), almost 50 major cities, and supporting over 100 million inhabitants.
The Gran Chaco or Dry Chaco is a sparsely populated, hot and semiarid lowland tropical dry broadleaf forest natural region of the Río de la Plata basin, divided among eastern Bolivia, western Paraguay, northern Argentina, and a portion of the Brazilian states of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul, where it is connected with the Pantanal region.