1. The Colorado River is 1450 miles (thats 2330 km) in length
2. Spanish explorer Melchior Diaz was one of the first people to explore the river in 1540
3. In 1869, John Wesley Powell led the group that became the first to successfully explore and map the Colorado River. He was also the first head of the US Geological Survey
4. The state and the river both derive their names from the Spanish for red. The river used to have a reddish-brown color, but now the silt and sediment that gave it the color is trapped behind Glen Canyon Dam at the bottom of Lake Powell.
5. The river begins in the Rocky Mountains and flows into the Gulf of California (in Mexico)
6. The Colorado River supplies water to over 25 million people and irrigates around 3.5 million acres of farmland
7. More water is exported from the Colorado River's basin than any other river basin worldwide
8. The Colorado River flows through Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, California, Arizona and Nevada. All these territories have rights to the river under the Colorado River Pact of 1922
9. The Hoover Dam was the first of a series of dams to be built on the river back in 1931
10. 87% of the water leaving Colorado flows out of the Colorado river basin toward the Pacific Ocean. The remaining 13 percent of the water leaving Colorado flows out of the Missouri, Arkansas, and Rio Grande river basins toward the Atlantic Ocean.The Colorado River accounts for 25% of the stream flow leaving the state
11. The Colorado River's tributaries are: Gila River, Colorado River Aqueduct, Virgin River, Little River, San Juan River, and the Green River
12. The river is popular for all sorts of sports including rafting, canoeing, kayaking, jet skiing, fishing, tubing, wakeboarding and many more
It is North America's sixth Longest river. Also Rio Grande means Great River in Spanish.
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Rio Grande. The Rio Grande River is placed on the border of the U.S and Mexico. Also, some of this river travels up into parts of Texas and New Mexico. Another thing about this river is that it empties into the Gulf of Mexico which is also part of the Atlantic Ocean.
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The river that divides part of Mexico from the United States is called the Rio Grande. Rio Grande means "large river" in Spanish. The Rio Grande is the natural border between the United States and Mexico.
The River Rio Grande is 1,885 miles long. The Rio Grande also forms part of the Northern border of Mexico.