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The river's first diversion is here at its headwater. The Grand Ditch redirects water from the Never Summer Mountains, which would have flowed into the Colorado River, to instead flow across the divide through La Poudre Pass to irrigate farmland to the east. Near the source of the Colorado River in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
The following is a tree demonstrating the points at which the major and minor tributaries of the Colorado River branch off from the main river and from each other. (Source-upstream) Fraser River; Muddy Creek; Blue River. Snake River; Tenmile Creek; Piney River; Eagle River. Gore Creek; Roaring Fork River. Fryingpan River; Crystal River; Plateau ...
The Colorado River (Spanish: Río Colorado) is one of the principal rivers (along with the Rio Grande) in the Southwestern United States and in northern Mexico. The 1,450-mile-long (2,330 km) river, the 5th longest in the United States, drains an expansive, arid watershed that encompasses parts of seven U.S. states and two Mexican states.
The Colorado River hydrologic region has a surface area of about 20,000 sq mi (52,000 km 2), and includes all of Imperial County, and portions of Riverside, San Bernardino, and San Diego. With an average of 5.5 in (140 mm) rain annually, this is the most arid hydrologic region of the state.
A visual journey along the Colorado River, from the headwaters to Mexico, that shows the environmental toll on the depleting resource.
Map of the Colorado River Aqueduct Whitsett Pumping Plant, located on Lake Havasu reservoir, lifts water 291 feet (89 m) for the Colorado River Aqueduct, on the California side. Colorado River Aqueduct near Joshua Tree National Park, including Pinto Wash Syphon, north of Desert Center. The Colorado River Aqueduct, or CRA, is a 242 mi (389 km ...
The Colorado River Upper Basin, comprised of Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico, and the Lower Basin, made up of California, Arizona and Nevada, have been quarreling for months over seemingly ...
California's Sierra Nevada snowpack is now about 200% of average at this point in the season, while the snowpack in the Upper Colorado River Basin so far stands at about 140% of the median over ...