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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
Of the 158 named rivers that flow through the State of Colorado, all but the Green River [c] and Cimarron River [a] have their headwaters in that state.. As of February 1, 2008, the U.S. Board on Geographic Names had identified 5,564 natural streams in the State of Colorado.
The Rocky River is a 95-mile-long (153 km) [5] river in the Piedmont region of North Carolina. It begins in Iredell County near Mooresville and flows south into Cabarrus County, where it is the principal waterway in the county. The river continues southeastward to form the line between Stanly, Union, and Anson counties.
Tick Creek then flows south and curves northeast to meet the Rocky River about 5 miles southeast of Siler City. This stream is the second largest Rocky River tributary in drainage area and average discharge. Meadow Creek, right bank: 5.68 square miles (14.7 km 2) 7.40 cu ft/s (0.210 m 3 /s) 4.70 mi (7.56 km)
The river system is one of the most heavily developed in the world, with fifteen dams on the main stem of the Colorado [citation needed] and hundreds more on tributaries. Collectively, dams in the Colorado River basin can hold four to five times the river's annual flow, generating hydroelectricity and supplying irrigation and municipal water ...
Scientists mapped the flow of water through every single river on the planet, every day over the past 35 years, using a combination of satellite data and computer modeling. What they found shocked ...
This is a partial list of rivers of the Rocky Mountains in Canada and the United States. For a full listing of rivers in the Canadian portion of the range, see List of rivers of the Canadian Rockies .
The average flow rate at the mouth of the Amazon is sufficient to fill more than 83 such pools each second. The estimated global total for all rivers is 1.2 × 10 6 m 3 /s (43 million cu ft/s), [ 1 ] of which the Amazon would be approximately 18%.