The basin area is 629, 100 km (242, 900 miles)
The Colorado River Basin stretches from Wyoming to Mexico.
the Mississippi river drainage basin, Colorado river drainage basin, and the Columbia river drainage basin
The Colorado River Basin provides unparalleled aesthetic and recreational features.
The Colorado River Compact has several purposes: 1) to apportion the use of water in the Colorado River Basin (i.e. the Colorado River and all its tributaries); 2) promote interstate comity; and 3) to secure the ability of the Upper Colorado River Basin to develop at its own pace (without the compact, the more populous Lower Basin would have tried to develop a claim as much water as possible--the compact preserves the ability of the Upper Basin to use water).
The Colorado River Basin provides unparalleled aesthetic and recreational features.
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California and Nevada are not included in the upper basin, and Arizona is in both.
Because of the much larger drainage basin.
Arthur L. Geldon has written: 'Hydrologic Properties and Ground-Water Flow Systems of the Paleozoic Rocks in the Upper Colorado River Basin in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah (U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 1411-B)' 'Geology of Paleozoic Rocks in the Upper Colorado River Basin in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, Excluding the San Juan Basin (Regional ... Analysis--Upper Colorado River Basin)'
It is Austin, Texas but it is not the Colorado River that begins in Colorado and flows through the Grand Canyon to the Sea of Cortez. It is the Colorado River of Texas whose drainage basin is in Texas and New Mexico.
The Colorado River watershed covers an area of 246,000 square miles.