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Colorado River
- River in the southwestern United States, with its headwaters in the Rocky Mountains of northern Colorado , that flows generally southwest through Colorado, Utah , and Arizona ; forms the border between Nevada and Arizona and Arizona and California ; and then flows through Mexico , emptying into the Gulf of California.
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The Colorado River in Arizona flows through a series of twenty vast cañons that have a length of about one thousand miles.
This uplift imprisoned an enormous Eocene lake that occupied much of what is now the Colorado River basin.
I have also had fine sport with them along the bottoms of the Colorado river, where they are to be found in abundance.
To my friends and comrades of the Colorado River Expedition of 1871 and 1872 in grateful remembrance.
Arizona did not seem to yield kindly to the civilisers; indeed, it was like the Colorado River, repellent and unbreakable.
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