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Encyclopedia > List of New Mexico rivers

This is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of New Mexico. A state of the United States (a U.S. state) is any one of the fifty states (four of which officially favor the term commonwealth) which, along with the District of Columbia, form the United States of America. ... Official language(s) None; English and Spanish de facto Capital Santa Fe Largest city Albuquerque Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 5th 315,194 km² 550 km 595 km 0. ...

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East of the Continental Divide

Rio Grande watershed

The Rio Grande flowing in Big Bend National Park The Rio Grande in its lower course, between Matamoros and Brownsville Known as the Rio Grande in the United States and as the Río Bravo (or, more formally, the Río Bravo del Norte) in Mexico, the river, 3034 km... The Pecos River rises in northern New Mexico, USA, and flows for 926 miles (1,480 km) through the eastern portion of that state and neighboring Texas before it empties into the Rio Grande near Del Rio. ... Official language(s) None. ...

Mississippi watershed

The Canadian River is the largest tributary of the Arkansas River. ... Lower Arkansas River The Arkansas River is a tributary of the Mississippi which flows east and southeast through Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and the state of Arkansas. ... Template:ROXANA This article is about the U.S. State. ...

West of the Continental Divide

Categories: Stub | Colorado rivers | Utah rivers ... Located in southwest Colorado, the Animas River is a freestone fishery well populated with rainbows and browns and a few cutthroat and brook trout. ... The Zuni (Zuñi) River, a tributary of the Little Colorado River, has its origin in Cibola County, New Mexico at the Continental Divide, flowing generally in a southwesterly direction through the Zuni Indian Reservation to join the Little Colorado River in north eastern Arizona. ... For the river in Brazil, see Rio São Francisco The San Francisco River is a river in the southwest United States, the largest tributary to the Gila River. ... The Gila River, a tributary of the Colorado, is shown highlighted on a map of the United States The Gila River (Oodham [Pima]: Hila Akimel) is a tributary of the Colorado River, 630 mile (1,014 km) long, in the southwestern United States. ...

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Pecos River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (224 words)
The Pecos River rises near Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States, and flows for 926 miles (1,480 km) through the eastern portion of that state and neighboring Texas before it empties into the Rio Grande near Del Rio.
The river is dammed at Avalon and McMillan to help irrigate about 25,000 acres (101 km²) as part of the Carlsbad reclamation project (established in 1906).
New Mexico and Texas disputed water rights to the river until the federal government settled the dispute in 1949.
AEJMC Archives -- September 1999, week 5 (#12) (7236 words)
In neighboring Mexico tourists rushed to leave the resorts of Cancun and Cozumel, where the hurricane, Mitch, is expected to hit by the end of the week.[25] The report was accompanied by a two-column photograph of a crying Guatemalan child, in a bright, frilly dress, being lifted by firefighters from floodwaters.
News is drawing upon the archetypal stories of calamity and crisis to uphold the social order and to affirm the superiority of a way of life.
International news coverage is replete with stories of calamities and catastrophes that are caused by the inadequacies of other nations, that are complete in their devastation, that humble humanity and that leave chastened survivors to reflect and renew.
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