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Colorado River
The
Colorado River
is one of the principal rivers of the
Southwestern United States
and northern
Mexico
(the other being the
Rio Grande
). The 1,450-mile (2,330 km) Colorado River drains an expansive, arid
watershed
that encompasses parts of seven U.S. and two Mexican states. Rising in the central
Rocky Mountains
in the U.S., the river flows generally southwest across the
Colorado Plateau
and through the
Grand Canyon
before reaching
Lake Mead
on the
Arizona
–
Nevada
border, where it turns south toward the international border. After entering Mexico, the Colorado approaches the large
Colorado River Delta
at the tip of the
Gulf of California
between
Baja California
and
Sonora
.
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