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Animas River (On-e-mas; Spanish: Río de las Ánimas) is a 126-mile-long (203 km) [1] river in the western United States, a tributary of the San Juan River, part of the Colorado River System. The river has experienced numerous catastrophes due to the mining nearby, the largest being the 2015 Gold King Mine waste water spill.
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 ...
San Juan River. Chaco River; La Plata River; Animas River; Los Pinos River; Navajo River; See also ... USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of New Mexico (1974)
A map of the San Juan River watershed, which drains into the Colorado river, showing the northern tributary of the Animas River. The impact on the Animas River was quickly visible; one Durango-based journalist described the water color after the accident as "Tang that has been maybe mixed too thickly."
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... (San Juan River tributary) Los Pinos River; M. ... (Animas Valley, New Mexico) Walnut Creek (Playas Valley, New Mexico) ...
The Animas Valley is a lengthy and narrow north–south valley 85 miles (137 kilometres) long, [1] located in western Hidalgo County, New Mexico, in the Bootheel Region; the extreme south of the valley lies in Sonora-Chihuahua, in the extreme north-west of the Chihuahuan Desert, the large desert region of the north-central Mexican Plateau and the Rio Grande valley and river system.
Night aerial view from the southwest of New Mexico State Road 516 along the Animas River (top center), and US Route 64 along the San Juan River (Colorado River tributary) (right and foreground left), and their junction and confluence in Farmington. U.S. Highway 64 is the major east–west highway through San Juan County and across Farmington.
Hermosa Creek is a tributary of the Animas River in San Juan and La Plata counties in Colorado. The creek rises near Hermosa Peak in San Juan County, Colorado and then flows generally south to La Plata County and to its confluence with the Animas River in Hermosa.