Colorado River Research Paper
The Colorado River
The Colorado River is one of the biggest rivers in the U.S. that isn’t connected to the Mississippi River. The Colorado river runs through the Grand Canyon. It helped form the Grand Canyon. The Colorado River is 1,450 miles long and runs through seven states. Wyoming Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, and California. For 17 miles the Colorado river forms the boundary between Mexico and Arizona. The Colorado River starts at La Poudre Pass Lake. The Colorado river ends at the Gulf of California. The Colorado river is one of the most important rivers during big storms. It acts as a watershed for the seven states it runs through. The Colorado river supplies water to million acres of farm land and water to to over 25
million people. There are eleven national parks along the Colorado river. White water rafting is the biggest sport along the Colorado river. White water rafting has raised over one hundred and sixty million dollars in revenue in one year. The Hoover dam is built on the Colorado river. Most of the dams on the Colorado river were built between 1910 and 1970. The Colorado river is one of the most highly controlled rivers in the world today. The average depth of the Colorado river is twenty feet deep but in places it can get up to one hundred feet deep. The Colorado river’s temerature is forty-two degrees F. The temperature before all the dams were put in was eighty degrees F. The Colorado river was once know as the Red River because of all the particles of silt that was in it. In 2014 the Colorado river took 15 deaths which ties the record that was set in 2009. The Average death rate of people on the Colorado river is six to ten people per year.
The Colorado river was formed about sixty to seventy million years ago when the Rocky Mountains where formed. The Colorado river is the drainage for the Rocky Mountains. In the Grand Canyon the Colorado river flows at four miles-per-hour. The average width of the Colorado river is three hundred feet across. The Native Americans relied heavily on the Colorado river in the eighteen and nineteen hundreds. The major tributaries of the Colorado river are the following. Fraser River, Blue River, Eagle River, Roaring Fork River, Gunnison River, Dolores River, San Juan River, Little Colorado River, Bill Williams River, Gila River, Green River, Dirty Devil River, Escalante River, Kanab River, and Virgin River.
The land along the Colorado river is home to many wildlife species including. elk, bobcat, deer, mountain lions and sheep, coyote, and also a large variety of birds.
The Colorado river also runs through the canyons of Westwater canyon and Cataract canyon. The oldest people who lived along the river are believed to have been the Paleo-Indians which have lived there for twelve thousand years.
The Colorado has been subject to many fights between the states it flows through. The word Colorado comes from a Spanish word that means red color. The Colorado river flows around the Horseshoe bend. It is basically a big chunk of rock that water flows around to make a horseshoe. The aqueduct that was built on the Colorado river is two hundred and forty-two miles long. It has ninety tunnels and discharges more than one billion gallons of water to the people a day. The starting point of the Colorado river is over nine thousand feet in altitude.
The Colorado River is one of the biggest rivers in the U.S. that isn’t connected to the Mississippi River. The Colorado river runs through the Grand Canyon. It helped form the Grand Canyon. The Colorado River is 1,450 miles long and runs through seven states. Wyoming Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, and California. For 17 miles the Colorado river forms the boundary between Mexico and Arizona. The Colorado River starts at La Poudre Pass Lake. The Colorado river ends at the Gulf of California. The Colorado river is one of the most important rivers during big storms. It acts as a watershed for the seven states it runs through. The Colorado river supplies water to million acres of farm land and water to to over 25
million people. There are eleven national parks along the Colorado river. White water rafting is the biggest sport along the Colorado river. White water rafting has raised over one hundred and sixty million dollars in revenue in one year. The Hoover dam is built on the Colorado river. Most of the dams on the Colorado river were built between 1910 and 1970. The Colorado river is one of the most highly controlled rivers in the world today. The average depth of the Colorado river is twenty feet deep but in places it can get up to one hundred feet deep. The Colorado river’s temerature is forty-two degrees F. The temperature before all the dams were put in was eighty degrees F. The Colorado river was once know as the Red River because of all the particles of silt that was in it. In 2014 the Colorado river took 15 deaths which ties the record that was set in 2009. The Average death rate of people on the Colorado river is six to ten people per year.
The Colorado river was formed about sixty to seventy million years ago when the Rocky Mountains where formed. The Colorado river is the drainage for the Rocky Mountains. In the Grand Canyon the Colorado river flows at four miles-per-hour. The average width of the Colorado river is three hundred feet across. The Native Americans relied heavily on the Colorado river in the eighteen and nineteen hundreds. The major tributaries of the Colorado river are the following. Fraser River, Blue River, Eagle River, Roaring Fork River, Gunnison River, Dolores River, San Juan River, Little Colorado River, Bill Williams River, Gila River, Green River, Dirty Devil River, Escalante River, Kanab River, and Virgin River.
The land along the Colorado river is home to many wildlife species including. elk, bobcat, deer, mountain lions and sheep, coyote, and also a large variety of birds.
The Colorado river also runs through the canyons of Westwater canyon and Cataract canyon. The oldest people who lived along the river are believed to have been the Paleo-Indians which have lived there for twelve thousand years.
The Colorado has been subject to many fights between the states it flows through. The word Colorado comes from a Spanish word that means red color. The Colorado river flows around the Horseshoe bend. It is basically a big chunk of rock that water flows around to make a horseshoe. The aqueduct that was built on the Colorado river is two hundred and forty-two miles long. It has ninety tunnels and discharges more than one billion gallons of water to the people a day. The starting point of the Colorado river is over nine thousand feet in altitude.