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The South Fork Merced River is the largest tributary of the Merced River.Most of the river flows within Yosemite National Park in the Sierra Nevada of California. [1] The river is 43 miles (69 km) long, and its drainage basin covers about 240 square miles (620 km 2), of which 109 square miles (280 km 2) are in the national park.
Merced River watershed (Interactive map) The Merced River watershed encompasses 1,726 square miles (4,470 km 2) in the central Sierra Nevada. To the north it is bordered by the watershed of the Tuolumne River, the other major river draining Yosemite National Park. On the south, the Merced watershed borders on the headwaters of the San Joaquin ...
South Fork Merced River • average: 20.37 cu ft/s (0.577 m 3 /s) at mouth with South Fork Merced River: Basin features; Progression: South Fork Merced River → Merced River → San Joaquin River → Suisun Bay → San Francisco Bay → Pacific Ocean: River system: Merced River: Tributaries • left: unnamed tributaries • right: unnamed ...
South Fork, Merced River: Yosemite National Park: Modified queen: Zane's Ranch Covered Bridge [1] ... Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as ...
The Wawona Covered Bridge is a covered bridge spanning the South Fork Merced River near Wawona, California, in Yosemite National Park.The open bridge (without the covering) was built by Galen Clark, the steward of what was then called the Yosemite Grant, in 1868, without its cladding.
The National Park Service is closing most of Yosemite Valley, as the Merced River is expected to reach flood levels Thursday night. The closure starts at 10 a.m. Friday, the park service said Tuesday.
The Colorado River supplies water to more than 40 million people, as well as hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland as it traverses through seven states before reaching the U.S.–Mexico border.
Kings River (Divides into the North Fork, South Fork and Clark's Fork distributaries in the San Joaquin Valley, not to be confused with the North and South Forks in the Sierra Nevada headwaters. North Fork connects to the Fresno Slough that drains into the San Joaquin River (during high flows), before turning to the south rejoining with the ...