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The Rio Grande drainage basin (watershed) has an area of 182,200 square miles (472,000 km 2); [5] however, the endorheic basins that are adjacent to and within the greater drainage basin of the Rio Grande increase the total drainage-basin area to 336,000 square miles (870,000 km 2). [12]
The Upper Basin covers only 45 percent of the land area of the Colorado River Basin, but contributes 92 percent of the runoff. [57] The entire eastern boundary of the Colorado River Basin runs along the North American Continental Divide and is defined largely by the Rocky Mountains and the Rio Grande Basin.
Rehabilitation of these dams, and construction of the Cochiti Dam were undertaken by the Middle Rio Grande Project. [1] The San Juan–Chama Project brings water to the Rio Grande basin from the Colorado River Basin, building the Heron Dam to store some of the water, with an expansion of the El Vado Dam storing some of the remainder. The Closed ...
The Rio Hondo Coastal Basin Spreading Grounds are Los Angeles County Public Works' largest aquifer recharge facility and cover about 570 acres. (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times)
1. Pacific Northwest Basin; 2. California River Basin; 3. Great Basin; 4. Lower Colorado River Basin; 5. Upper Colorado River Basin; 6. Rio Grande River Basin
The Colorado River Basin includes parts of California, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming. The Colorado River is the largest river in the Southwest United States. The Great Basin watershed includes parts of southern California, most of Utah, the northwest half of Nevada, and parts of Oregon and Idaho. The Rio Grande Basin includes ...
May 10—The federal government will invest $60 million in drought resiliency in the Rio Grande Basin, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced Friday. The millions come from the 2022 ...
In 1827 the Spanish called it the San Ygnacio, [1] and in 1843 the Spanish land grant referred to it as Rio Grande. [ 10 ] The river takes its current name from Russian Ivan Kuskov of the Russian-American Company, who explored the river in the early 19th-century and established the Fort Ross colony 10 mi (16 km) northwest of its mouth.