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This is a List of mountain ranges of the Lower Colorado River Valley, located in the western part of the southwestern United States; the eastern region would be the Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico, Texas, and northern Mexico. This doubled list has the North–South running Colorado River sectioned into the west side of the river vs. the east side.
Beaver Dam Mountains, January 2007 Boundary Cone and the Black Mountains (Arizona), viewed from about ~due-west (from Mohave Valley, in Lower Colorado River Valley) Aquarius Mountains–Mohave County; Artillery Mountains–Mohave County; Aubrey Hills–Mohave County ( Beaver Dam Mountains–S. Washington County, Utah -- (N. Mohave County ...
Nepal contains most of the Himalayas, the highest mountain range in the world. Eight of the fourteen eight-thousanders are located in the country, either in whole or shared across a border with China or India. Nepal has the highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest at an astonishing height of 8,848.86m as well as 1,310 peaks over 6,000 m height.
The Lower Colorado River Valley is in the western part of the Sonoran Desert, which is called the Colorado Desert. the Sonoran Desert region proper extends from areas west of the river, and then southeastwards to southeast Arizona, south along the eastern side of the Baja Peninsula cordillera to Baja California Sur, and southeast Sonora state ...
List of mountain ranges of Arizona; List of rivers of Arizona; The Gila River, a tributary of the Colorado along the width of southern Arizona, and its valley can be traced on a map of Arizona. The Gila forms the boundary between various counties in Eastern Arizona.
Chocolate Mountains (Arizona)–La Paz County; Dome Rock Mountains–La Paz County; Granite Wash Mountains–La Paz County; Harcuvar Mountains–NE. La Paz County -- (SW. Yavapai County) Harquahala Mountains–E. La Paz County -- (W. Maricopa County) (Kofa Mountains–N. Yuma County - (S. La Paz County) ) Little Buckskin Mountains–La Paz County
Many mountain ranges exceed 9,000 feet (2,700 m) in elevation, and some can hold snow all summer. Arizona has 194 named mountain ranges. The highest are along the southwest margin of the Colorado Plateau, including the volcanic San Francisco Peaks just north of Flagstaff and the White Mountains of the Mogollon Rim.
It finally exits Rocky Mountain National Park, flowing into Shadow Mountain Lake and then into Lake Granby, which are portions of the Colorado-Big Thompson Project, a large trans-basin water storage and delivery project that diverts water from the Colorado River under the Front Range mountains to provide an agricultural and municipal water ...