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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 Valley is a multi-sectioned valley of the Gila River, located primarily in Arizona. The Gila River forms in western New Mexico and flows west across southeastern, south-central, and southwestern Arizona; it changes directions as it progresses across the state, and defines specific areas and valleys.
The northern branch tributary to the Gila River in the Gila National Forest, is the San Francisco River. The map highlights the Gila River extending eastward across southern Arizona to the southwestern corner of Arizona and its input into the Colorado River, from its origins about 400 miles east in the southwestern corner of the state of New ...
The Estrella Mountains or The Sierra Estrella (O'odham: Komaḍk, Maricopa: Vii Lyxa, Yavapai: Wi:kchasa) is a mountain range located southwest of Phoenix, Arizona.Much of the range falls within the Gila River Indian Reservation, but 14,400 acres (5,800 ha) of BLM land is protected as the Sierra Estrella Wilderness, and is also located near Goodyear, 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 ...
Between AD 800 and 1200 it was an important Hohokam settlement at the great bend of the Gila River. The Hohokam people were early farmers in southern Arizona, where the permanent Salt and Gila Rivers flowing through the hot Sonoran Desert made the irrigation strategy possible. [3] The site is the largest in the area and was home to over 500 people.
The Gila River passes through the city. The largest master-planned community is Estrella, south of the Gila River, located near the Estrella Mountains. [10] The Estrella Mountain Regional Park covers almost 20,000 acres (81 km 2), most of which is still desert. It contains eight trails over 30 mi (48 km) in combined length, two baseball fields ...
Goodyear Village (O'odham: Valin Dak) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Pinal County, Arizona, United States, located in the Gila River Indian Community. The population was 457 at the 2010 census .