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La Plata River (Navajo: Tsé Dogoi Ńlíní) is a 70-mile-long (110 km) [2] tributary to the San Juan River in La Plata County, Colorado, and San Juan County, New Mexico, in the United States. This small river heads at the western foot of Snow Storm Peak in the La Plata Mountains of southwestern Colorado , approximately 35 miles (56 km) north ...
The dam serves for flood control, irrigation and long-term water storage, and its operations are paired with two major water projects of the upper San Juan River: the San Juan–Chama Project which diverts almost 100,000 acre-feet (0.12 km 3) per year from the San Juan watershed to the Rio Grande system serving Albuquerque, New Mexico, [95] and ...
1.1.2 La Plata Basin. ... with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name. Rivers longer than 400 miles (644 km) are in bold. ... San Juan River ...
Fremont River; Escalante River; San Juan River. East Fork San Juan River; West Fork San Juan River. Wolf Creek; Navajo River; Piedra River; Los Pinos River; Animas River. Florida River; La Plata River; Chaco River; Mancos River; Chinle Creek; Paria River; Little Colorado River. Zuni River. Rio Nutria, tributary to the Zuni River; Rio Pescado ...
(miles) 1 South America: Amazon: 224,000 ... Río de la Plata: Tributary river [14] 41 North America: Yukon: 6,860 ... San Juan: Before delta: 2,304 Pacific Ocean [39] 65
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The Navajo Nation, whose 27,000 square-mile (70,000 square-kilometer) reservation also stretches into New Mexico and Utah, already has settled its claims to the Colorado River basin there.
Farmington is located at the junction of the San Juan River, the Animas River, and the La Plata River, and is located on the Colorado Plateau. Farmington is the largest city of San Juan County, one of the geographically largest counties in the United States covering 5,538 square miles (14,340 km 2).