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Parker (Mojave 'Amat Kuhwely, formerly 'Ahwe Nyava) is the county seat of La Paz County, Arizona, United States, [3] on the Colorado River in Parker Valley. As of the 2020 census , the population of the city was 3,417.
The long Parker Valley (green) along the Colorado River in southwestern Arizona and southeastern California, shown running north–south on left side of Arizona topographic map. View of entire region: the larger valley just south, is the Yuma Valley area containing Yuma, Arizona .
Guadalupe Canyon Creek, tributary to the San Bernardino River joins it at just below Dieciocho de Augusto, Sonora. Whitewater Draw : originally considered the upper reach of the Rio de Agua Prieta , it enters Mexico as the head of Rio de Agua Prieta, which runs southward then southeast to join the Rio de San Bernardino , at La Junta de los Rios ...
Parker Strip is located in the northwest corner of La Paz County at (34.227837, -114.182177 It lies along the Colorado River and includes Parker Dam , which forms Lake Havasu . To the northwest, across the Colorado River, is San Bernardino County, California , and to the north, across an arm of Lake Havasu formed by the Bill Williams River , is ...
Colorado River bridge at California state line: Southern end of northern segment: Arizona Village: 117.23: 188.66: CR 227 east (Courtwright Road) – Topock, Golden Shores: To SR 95 south via I-40 east: Bullhead City: 134.90: 217.10: SR 68 east / Bullhead Parkway – Kingman: Bullhead Pkwy. serves Laughlin/Bullhead International Airport ...
Parker Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam that crosses the Colorado River 155 miles (249 km) downstream of Hoover Dam.Built between 1934 and 1938 by the Bureau of Reclamation, it is 320 feet (98 m) high, 235 feet (72 m) of which are below the riverbed (the deep excavation was necessary in order to reach the bedrock on which the foundation of the dam was built), [1] [2] making it the deepest ...
The CAP was constructed in stages from 1973 to 1993, ultimately extending 336 miles (541 km) from the Colorado River at Parker Dam to Tucson, Arizona. It delivers 1.4 million acre-feet (1.7 km 3) of water per year, irrigates 830,000 acres (3,400 km 2) of farmland and provides municipal water to about 5 million people. [251]
The Central Arizona Project (CAP) is a 336 mi (541 km) diversion canal in Arizona in the southern United States. The aqueduct diverts water from the Colorado River at the Bill Williams Wildlife Refuge south portion of Lake Havasu near Parker into central and southern Arizona.