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The Colorao River ('Aha Kwahwat in Mojave) is a river in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, approximately 1,450 mi (2,330 km) long, draining a part of the arid regions on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains. The natural course of the river flows into the Gulf of California, but the heavy use of the river as an irrigation source for the Imperial Valley has desiccated the lower course of the river in Mexico such that it no longer consistently reaches the sea.

Trivia about colorado river

  • River seen here before the building of the Hoover Dam
  • This "stately" river carved the Black Canyon as well as the Grand Canyon
  • This river you cross going west from Arizona to California bears the name of another state
  • It's still working at deepening the Grand Canyon
  • California & Arizona'a 40-year dispute over water rights to this river ended in 1963
  • It begins as a creek near an old mining town called Lulu City in Rocky Mountain National Park
  • The Glen Canyon Dam & a certain presidential one
  • This river flows into the Gulf of California & provides the boundary between Baja California Norte & Sonora
  • This river forms the boundary between Arizona & California
  • The Mojave, who originally lived on this river, still have a reservation on it
  • Utah's Arches National Park, which borders a deep gorge of this river, has at least 950 natural arches
  • It's stll working on deepening the Grand Canyon
  • John Wesley Powell led the first successful navigation down this river through the Grand Canyon
  • Man-made Lake Powell on this river is named for early conservationist John Wesley Powell
  • Having a splash in Needles, California
  • This 1,450-mile-long river is joined in Utah by the Green & San Juan Rivers
  • The Green River is its largest tributary; they meet up in southeastern Utah
  • Hernando de Alarcon sailed up this river a few months before Cardenas made his "Grand" discovery
  • River that connects Lake Powell in Utah with the Gulf of California

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