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This is a partial list of rivers of the Rocky Mountains in Canada and the United States. For a full listing of rivers in the Canadian portion of the range, see List of rivers of the Canadian Rockies .
List of rivers of the Rocky Mountains; S. San Pitch River This page was last edited on 26 May 2017, at 19:16 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Columbia River. Flathead River. Kootenay River. Elk River. Fording River; Vermilion River. Simpson River; Kicking Horse River. Amiskwi River; Yoho River. Little Yoho ...
The Santa Fe Mountains at the southern end of the Rockies as seen from the Sandia Crest in New Mexico The summits of the Teton Range in Wyoming. The name of the mountains is a calque of an Algonquian name, specifically Plains Cree ᐊᓯᓃᐘᒋᐩ asinîwaciy (originally transcribed as-sin-wati), literally "rocky mountain / alp".
This is a list of dams on the Colorado River system of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. 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.
Up to 90 percent of the river's flow originates as snowmelt from the Rocky Mountains and other smaller mountain ranges of the Colorado Plateau. [78] Natural seasonal flows at its mouth varied widely, often exceeding 100,000 cu ft/s (2,800 m 3 /s) in the spring melt and falling as low as 2,500 cu ft/s (71 m 3 /s) in winter. [ 79 ]
The Big Thompson River is a tributary of the South Platte River, approximately 78 miles (126 km) long, in the U.S. state of Colorado. Originating in Forest Canyon in Rocky Mountain National Park, the river flows into Lake Estes in the town of Estes Park and then through Big Thompson Canyon. It includes four crossings/bridges which are listed on ...
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)