Route and confluences of the Colorado River in the United States and Mexico
The Colorado River is a major river of the western United States and northwest Mexico in North America. Its headwaters are in the Rocky Mountains where La Poudre Pass Lake is its source. Located in north central Colorado it flows southwest through the Colorado Plateau country of western Colorado, southeastern Utah and northwestern Arizona where it flows through the Grand Canyon. It turns south near Las Vegas, Nevada, forming the Arizona–Nevada border in Lake Mead and the Arizona–California border a few miles below Davis Dam between Laughlin, Nevada and Needles, California before entering Mexico in the Colorado Desert. Most of its waters are diverted into the Imperial Valley of Southern California. In Mexico its course forms the boundary between Sonora and Baja California before entering the Gulf of California. This article describes most of the major features along the river.
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Colorado River dams and diversions
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Source at La Poudre Pass
Grand Ditch
Shadow Mountain Dam
Colorado–Big Thompson Project
Granby Dam
Fontenelle Dam
Windy Gap Dam
Dillon Dam and Roberts Tunnel
Green Mountain Dam
Blue River
Ruedi Reservoir and Fry–Ark Tunnel
Flaming Gorge Dam
Roaring Fork River
Yampa River
Grand Valley Diversion Dam
Gunnison River
Central Utah Project Uinta diversions
Soldier Creek Dam and CUP diversion
Crystal Dam
Morrow Point Dam
Blue Mesa Dam
Duchesne River
Price River and Scofield Dam
San Rafael River and Joes Valley Dam
McPhee Dam
Dolores River
Green River
San Juan–Chama Project intake
Navajo Indian Irrigation Project intake
Navajo Dam
Vallecito Dam
Los Pinos River
Animas River
San Juan River
Glen Canyon Dam & Lake Powell
Lee’s Ferry
Little Colorado River and Lyman Dam
Quail Creek Dam
Virgin River/Muddy River
Las Vegas Valley intake
Las Vegas Wash
Hoover Dam & Lake Mead
Davis Dam
Alamo Dam
Bill Williams River
Central Arizona Project intake
Parker Dam
Colorado River Aqueduct
Theodore Roosevelt Dam
Headgate Rock Dam
Horse Mesa Dam
Mormon Flat Dam
Stewart Mountain Dam
Coolidge Dam
New Waddell Dam & Lake Pleasant
Granite Reef Diversion Dam
Palo Verde Dam
CAP supply to Salt River Valley
Agua Fria River
Painted Rock Dam
Gila Main Canal intake
Imperial Dam/All-American Canal intake
Salton Sea
Gila River
All-American Canal supply to Imperial Valley
Gila Main Canal supply to Gila Valley
Morelos Dam/Alamo Canal intake
Colorado–Tijuana River Aqueduct
Reforma Canal supply to Mexicali Valley
Hardy River
Colorado River Delta
Gulf of California
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