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About 14.1% of families and 14.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 18.7% of those under age 18 and 1.5% of those age 65 or over. Satellite photo showing Page, Lake Powell, Glen Canyon Dam, Navajo Generating Station, and the Colorado River Aerial view of Page Colorado River, Page city area on the right and Navajo ...
This geographical peculiarity is the result of the Colorado River Delta, formed over millions of years by over 10,000 cubic miles (42,000 km 3) of rock and sand eroded from the Grand Canyon and other canyons along the river's course. The delta eventually split the Gulf of California in two; the northern part in present-day California, cut off ...
“The Colorado River Bridge” was built in 1908. [2] In September 2019, a fire, believed to have been started by arsonists, burned the southern end of the bridge (the Arizona side) near the entrance to BlueWater Lagoon. The bridge deck and pilings were both burned, and vegetation along the banks of the Colorado River was burned as well. [9]
Diamond Creek Road provides the only vehicular access to the Colorado River between Lees Ferry, 225 miles (362 km) upriver and Pierce Ferry, 52 miles (84 km) downriver. [2] This access makes Diamond Creek a popular location for whitewater rafting trips to take out from trips through the Grand Canyon .
Map showing the Upper and Lower Colorado River Basin, and adjacent areas supplied by Colorado River water. The Colorado River Basin consists of 246,000 square miles (640,000 km 2 ), making it the seventh largest drainage basin in North America. [ 1 ]
California's voracious appetite for Colorado River water was not necessarily an unreasonable concern in 1922: Although only 6,000 of the 244,000 square miles of the Colorado watershed are in ...
An infamous Colorado apartment complex overrun by the vicious Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang has been ordered to shut down because it poses an “imminent threat” to the public, a judge ruled.
Ehrenberg is located in western La Paz County and is located on the Colorado River, which forms the border between Arizona and California. The community is along Interstate 10 , which leads east 145 miles (233 km) to Phoenix and west 100 miles (160 km) to Indio, California .