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Rio Salado College was founded on March 14, 1978 [1] as one of 10 Maricopa Community Colleges. At the time, the college offered remote classrooms in 180 facilities throughout the Valley of the Sun. [ 2 ] Rio Salado College offered its first online classes in 1996 and by 2006 had converted a majority of its course offerings to an online format.
Salado culture, or Salado Horizon, [1] was a human culture in the upper Salt River (río Salado) [2] of the Tonto Basin in southeastern Arizona from approximately 1150 CE through the 15th century. Distinguishing characteristics of the Salado include distinctive Salado Polychrome pottery, communities within walled adobe compounds, and burial of ...
The Río Salado, also Río Salado de los Nadadores, [1] or Salado River, is a river in northern Mexico, a tributary of the Rio Grande (Río Bravo). Its basin extends across the northern portion of Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipas states. It originates in the Sierra Madre Oriental in Coahuila and flows east-northeastward.
Map of the Rio de la Plata Basin, showing the Salado River joining the Paraná River near Santa Fe and Rosario. The Salado River (Spanish: Río Salado, [1] Spanish pronunciation: [ˈri.o saˈlaðo] "Salty River") is a river that crosses several provinces of Argentina, flowing 1,150 kilometres (710 mi) [2] from its source in the Salta Province to end in the Paraná River, in the Santa Fe Province.
The Rio Salado is a tributary of the Rio Grande in the U.S. state of New Mexico. From its source in northeast Catron County it flows about 86 miles (138 km) [4] generally east to join the Rio Grande just north of Polvadera and about 15 miles (24 km) north of Socorro. [1] The name Río Salado is Spanish for "salty river". [2]
Salado River (Argentina), a tributary of the Paraná River; Salado River (Buenos Aires), starts at the El Chañar lagoon and runs 650 kilometres to Samborombón Bay; Salado River (La Rioja), in Catamarca Province and La Rioja Province; Desaguadero River, a tributary of the Colorado River
In its lower reaches, it is also known as the Salado. It joins the Colorado River in La Pampa Province near Pichi Mahuida . The Desaguadero has a total length of 1,498 km (931 mi) and its drainage basin is about 260,000 km 2 (100,000 sq mi).
The Salado originates in Puebla, and flows southeastwards to join the Grande River, which flows northwestwards. The confluence of the Salado and Grande rivers forms the Santo Domingo River, which flows eastwards through the Sierra Madre de Oaxaca to join the Papaloapan River, which then empties into the Gulf of Mexico. [1]