Colorado River
The Colorado River runs approximately 1,450 mi (2,330 km) from the western slopes of the Rocky Mountains across the southwestern United States to the Gulf of California in northwestern Mexico. Heavy use of the river has depleted the lower course of the river in Mexico such that it no longer reaches the sea in any consistant stream.
Following is a much more verbose and worthy description of this unique and intensely beautiful southwestern waterway and its watershed. Written by Major John Wesley Powell and published in 1895, it still retains a timeless quality in portraying this powerful natural feature.
THE VALLEY OF THE COLORADO
Colorado River
Grand Canyon
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Lake Mead
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Temple Bar
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Boulder Bay
Callville Bay
Echo Bay
Overton Beach
Hoover Dam
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Black Canyon
Willow Beach
Lake Mojave
Cottonwood Cove
Catfish Paradise
Five-Mile Landing
Havasu Wildlife Refuge
Topock Marsh
Topock Gorge
Mystic Maze
Hum Me Chomp Petroglyphs
Lake Havasu
London Bridge