Colorado River Tranquility
by Paul LeSage
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Colorado River Tranquility
Artist
Paul LeSage
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
The Colorado River and its shoreline tranquility is observed and contemplated, as it flows near Moab, Utah.
The river is a lifeblood of the southwest providing water for much of the area, in addition to being a source for recreational use, along its journey.
Located in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, the Colorado River is a 1,450-mile river with its headwaters in the Rocky Mountain National Park in north-central Colorado. The river is the primary source of water for a region that receives little annual rainfall.
More than 1,000 years ago, Native Americans irrigated their crops with the waters from the river. Today, the Colorado River is still used for irrigation, but it is also used to generate hydroelectric power and to supply water to distant urban areas.
The Colorado River has been a central feature in the history and development of the American West. Management efforts in the Colorado River Basin embody society's struggle to overcome conflicts between competing interests over a shared water resource.
The Colorado River system, including the Colorado River, its tributaries , and the lands that these waters drain, is called the Colorado River basin, or watershed. It drains an area of 246,000 square miles, including parts of seven western U.S. states (Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, California) and Mexico.
Three-fourths of the Colorado basin is federal land comprised of national forests, national parks, and Indian reservations. The drainage basin's total runoff is about (24,700 cubic feet per second. It is the international boundary for 17 miles between Arizona and Mexico.
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November 9th, 2018
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