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Gila Bend Overpass – The overpass was built in 1933–34. It is located on the Business Route 8 over the Southern Pacific railroad line. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966, reference# 88001607. The Gila Bend Steam Locomotive Water Stop – was built in 1900 and is located near Murphy Street.
Come to think of it, though, that was probably meant to be a pronunciation rather than a spelling. Still, I have no preference as to whether it should be here. Seems like a pretty minor distinction from the English pronunciation, which borrows from Spanish in the first place. Karen | Talk | contribs 00:57, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
The famous Gila Bend of the river changes the west-southwest flow to south-flowing, then back to west-flowing. Painted Rock Reservoir and the Dendora Valley are nestled at the south of the Gila Bend Mountains, the monolith which causes the diversion of the Gila Bend. Gila Bend, Arizona is located at the southeast of the bend, on Interstate 8.
Overdraft from the Gila River system prompted the construction of the Central Arizona Project, which delivers some 1,500,000 acre-feet (1.9 km 3) annually from the Colorado River to supplement water supplies in the basin. [17] The upper Gila River, including its entire length within New Mexico, is a free-flowing one.
The Gila River Indian Community (GRIC) (O'odham language: Keli Akimel Oʼotham, meaning "Gila River People", Maricopa language: Pee-Posh) is an Indian reservation in the U.S. state of Arizona, lying adjacent to the south side of the cities of Chandler and Phoenix, within the Phoenix Metropolitan Area in Pinal and Maricopa counties.
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The Gila River flows through the central-north end of the range. The famous Painted Rock Petroglyph Site lies at the northeast end of the range, adjacent the Painted Rock Reservoir , and the reservoir lies at the eastern end of the agricultural river valley that is locally named as the Lower Gila River Valley , extending approximately from the ...
It is adjacent north of Interstate 10 and lies at the southwest intersection of the Hassayampa River with the Gila River. The Tonopah Desert is also just north of the Gila Bend Mountains massif which create the Gila Bend of the river. The Tonopah Desert is adjacent northwest of the small Palo Verde Hills on Centennial Wash.