 A backpacker at the confluence of Buckskin Gulch and the Paria River The Paria River is a tributary of the Colorado River, approximately 75 mi (121 km) long, in southern Utah and northern Arizona in the United States. It drains a rugged and arid region northwest of the Colorado, flowing through roadless slot canyons along part of its course. Download high resolution version (973x1460, 331 KB)A backpacker stands at the confluence of Buckskin Gulch and the Paria River. ...
Download high resolution version (973x1460, 331 KB)A backpacker stands at the confluence of Buckskin Gulch and the Paria River. ...
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Colorado River in the Grand Canyon from Desert View The Colorado River is a river in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, approximately 1,450 mi (2,333 km) long, draining a part of the arid regions on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains. ...
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Geography
It is formed in southern Utah, in southwestern Garfield County from several creeks that descend from the edge of the Paunsaugunt Plateau, meeting just north of Tropic. It flows SSE across Kane County and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Along the Arizona state line, it descends through the Vermillion Cliffs in the Paria Canyon and onto the Paria Plateau. It joins the Colorado from the northwest approximately 5 mi (8 km) southwest of Page, Arizona and the Glen Canyon Dam. The lower 20 mi (32 km) of the river are within the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, which is administered by the Bureau of Land Management; a permit is required for any overnight visit. The Paria is essentially a large creek and is not navigable. Garfield County is a county located in the state of Utah. ...
The Paunsaugunt Plateau (pronounced PAWN-suh-gant) is dissected plateau, rising to an elevation of 7000 ft-9300 ft (2100 m-2800 m), in southwestern Utah in the United States. ...
Tropic is a town located in Garfield County, Utah, along Utah Scenic Byway 12. ...
Kane County is a county located in the state of Utah. ...
Near Egypt Trailhead, Canyons of the Escalante The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument contains 1. ...
Vermilion Cliffs, view from Glen Canyon near Lees Ferry The Vermilion Cliffs are the second step up in the five-step Grand Staircase of the Colorado Plateau. ...
A backpacker at the confluence of Buckskin Gulch and the Paria River. ...
Page is a city located in Coconino County, Arizona near Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell. ...
Glen Canyon Dam on 19 June 2005. ...
The Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness is located in northern Arizona and southern Utah, U.S.A., within the arid Colorado Plateau region. ...
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Attractions The Paria is one of the most popular destinations for canyoneering in the region. Buckskin Gulch, a side canyon along the river in the narrows section, is considered to be one of the longest and deepest slot canyons in the United States. The Paria is also home to a number of important historical, geological and biological resources. Lees Ferry and the adjoining settlement are located within the canyon just upstream of the confluence with the Colorado River, with a number of other abandoned settlements further north. The Paria and several nearby rivers and canyons also are the site of several well-preserved specimens of Native American petroglyphs, prehistoric drawings and symbols carved into stone. The Paria boasts a vibrant desert riparian habitat that is home to a number of sensitive and endangered species, and is also the location of Wrather Arch, the longest natural arch outside of Utah (although this claim may be superseded by Aloba Arch). Canyoning (known in the U.S. as canyoneering) is a sport popular in several countries. ...
Image inside of Buckskin Gulch. ...
Lees Ferry is named after John D. Lee a Mormon settler who established a ferry crossing on the Colorado River near Page, Arizona. ...
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A riparian zone schematic from the Everglades. ...
Rainbow Bridge was formed by a meandering watercourse. ...
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Aloba Arch is the name of a natural arch located in the African nation of Chad. ...
 A portion of upper Paria Canyon Paria Canyon was the site for a number of western movie sets from the 1940s to the 1970s. Among the movies filmed at this site were The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), Sergeants 3 (1962), and Buffalo Bill (1944). The old film set in the canyon was a popular attraction but was damaged in a flash flood in 1998[1]. The buildings were dismantled and rebuilt in a nearby location by volunteers. In 2006 these new buildings were destroyed in a suspicious fire[2][3]. Other Lists of Movies List of years in film in the 1940s 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 Decades in Film: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s List of movies See also Film, History of cinema Categories: 1940s ...
The decade of the 1970s in film involved many significant films. ...
The Outlaw Josey Wales is a 1976 revisionist Western movie set at the end of the American Civil War starring Clint Eastwood (as the eponymous Josey Wales), Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke, Bill McKinney, John Vernon, Paula Trueman, Sam Bottoms, Geraldine Keams, Woodrow Parfrey, Joyce Jameson, Sheb Wooley, and Royal...
Sergeants 3 is a 1962 remake of Gunga Din (1939) set in the American West, featuring Rat Pack icons Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr. ...
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See also This is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of Arizona Black River Colorado River Gila River Little Colorado River Salt River White River Verde River See also List of rivers in the United States Categories: Lists of rivers | U.S. rivers | Arizona rivers ...
This is a list of rivers in the state of Utah in the United States: Listed by watershed Colorado River - Gulf of California Green River Strawberry River White River Dolores River Hatch River Price River San Rafael River Dirty Devil River Fremont River Muddy Creek Escalante River San Juan River...
References - ^ Paria Movie Set Restoration, BLM Volunteer Feature, 2001; retrieved 12 September 2006
- ^ Fire tears through replica movie sets, Salt Lake Tribune, August 26, 2006; retrieved 12 September 2006
- ^ Rebuilt Kanab set: Volunteers who built the facility are furious, Salt Lake Tribune, August 29, 2006; retrieved 12 September 2006
US BLM logo The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is an agency within the United States Department of the Interior which administers Americas public lands, totaling approximately 261 million surface acres (1,056,229. ...
Marquis of the Salt Lake Tribune on the Tribune Building in Downtown Salt Lake City The Salt Lake Tribune is Salt Lake City, Utahs largest-circulated local daily newspaper. ...
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Image File history File links Download high resolution version (768x1024, 146 KB) Summary My picture from the Hoover Dam down the Colorado River taken on August 31, 2001. ...
The Shadow Mountain Dam is a Zoned Earthfill Dam on the Colorado River in Grand County, Colorado. ...
The Granby Dam is an earthfill dam that dams the Colorado River 5. ...
Glen Canyon Dam on 19 June 2005. ...
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The Davis Dam is a dam on the Colorado River downstream from Hoover Dam (ca. ...
Parker Dam is a concrete gravity-arch dam which spans the Colorado river, at a point 155 miles downstream of Hoover Dam. ...
A picture of Imperial Dam The Imperial Dam is a dam near Yuma, Arizona (USA), built in the 1930s. ...
The Laguna Diversion Dam is an earthfill dam 13 miles Northeast of Yuma, Arizona creating the Laguna Reservior along the Colorado River. ...
The Morelos Dam is the final dam on the Colorado River. ...
Colorado River Aqueduct The Colorado River Aqueduct is a 242-mi (392 km) water conveyance in southern California in the United States. ...
The Central Arizona Project Aqueduct (CAP) is a 336 mi (541 km) diversion canal in Arizona in the United States. ...
The All-American Canal brings Colorado River water to the Imperial Valley in California. ...
| | Natural features | Colorado River • Rocky Mountains • Colorado River Basin • Grand Lake • Sonoran Desert • Mojave Desert • Imperial Valley • Colorado Plateau • Black Canyon • Glen Canyon • Glenwood Canyon • Gore Canyon • Grand Canyon • Marble Canyon • New River • Paria Canyon • Ruby Canyon • Westwater Canyon • Gulf of California/Sea of Cortez • Salton Sea Colorado River in the Grand Canyon from Desert View The Colorado River is a river in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, approximately 1,450 mi (2,333 km) long, draining a part of the arid regions on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains. ...
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Grand Lake is a natural lake, one of the headwaters of the Colorado River in Grand County, Colorado. ...
Map of the Mojave and Sonoran deserts. ...
For the indigenous American tribe, see Mohave. ...
The Colorado Plateau, also called the Colorado Plateaus Province, is a physiographic region of the Intermontane Plateaus, roughly centered on the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States. ...
Black Canyon, photographed in 1871. ...
Glen Canyon Hite Crossing Bridge of Utah Highway 95 at Glen Canyon Glen Canyon, in southeastern and south central Utah and northwestern Arizona within the Vermilion Cliffs area, was carved by two rivers, the Colorado River and the San Juan River. ...
View down Glenwood Canyon at Hanging Lake Rest Area. ...
The Colorado River in Gore Canyon, showing the Denver and Rio Grande Western mainline Gore Canyon is a short isolated canyon on the upper Colorado River in southwestern Grand County, Colorado in the United States. ...
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Marble Canyon is the section of the Colorado River canyon from Glen Canyon Dam to the confluence with the Little Colorado River, which marks the beginning of the Grand Canyon. ...
The New River is a river that runs from Mexicali, Baja California, in Mexico into the United States through Calexico, California. ...
A backpacker at the confluence of Buckskin Gulch and the Paria River. ...
Ruby Canyon is a roughly 25 mile (40 km) canyon on the Colorado River located on the Colorado-Utah border in the western United States, and is a popular destination for rafting. ...
Westwater Canyon. ...
The Gulf of California (also known as the Sea of Cortez or Sea of Cortés; locally known in the Spanish language as Mar de Cortés or, much less frequently, Golfo de California) is a body of water that separates the Baja California Peninsula from the Mexican mainland. ...
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| | Tributaries | Blue River• Dirty Devil River • Dolores River • Escalante River • Eagle River • Fraser River • Gila River • Green River • Gunnison River • Kanab Creek • Little Colorado River • Paria River • Roaring Fork River • San Juan River • Virgin River• Williams Fork River Look up tributary in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
The Blue River, a tributary of the Colorado, is shown highlighted on a map of the western United States The Blue River is a tributary of the Colorado River, approximately 75 mi (121 km) long, in the U.S. state of Colorado. ...
The Dirty Devil River near Twin Corral Box Canyon The Dirty Devil River is a tributary of the Colorado River, approximately 80 mi (129 km) long, in south central Utah in the United States. ...
The Dolores River, a tributary of the Colorado, is shown highlighted on a map of the western United States The Dolores River is a tributary of the Colorado River, approximately 250 mi (402 km) long, in the U.S. states of Colorado and Utah. ...
The Escalante River is a tributary of the Colorado River, approximately 90 mi (145 km) long, in southern Utah. ...
The Eagle River, a tributary of the Colorado, is shown highlighted on a map of the western United States The Eagle River is a tributary of the Colorado River, approximately 70 mi (113 km) long, in west central Colorado in the United States. ...
The Fraser River is a tributary of the Colorado River, approximately 40 mi (64 km) long, in north central Colorado in the United States. ...
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. ...
The Green River, a tributary of the Colorado, is shown highlighted on a map of the western United States. ...
The Gunnison River, a tributary of the Colorado River, is shown highlighted on a map of the western United States The Gunnison River is a tributary of the Colorado River, approximately 180 mi (290 km) long, in the U.S. state of Colorado. ...
The Kanab River is one of the many tributaries of the Grand Canyon. ...
The Little Colorado River is shown highlighted on a map of the United States The Little Colorado River is a tributary of the Colorado River, approximately 315 mi (507 km) long, in the U.S. state of Arizona. ...
The Roaring Fork River, a tributary of the Colorado, is shown highlighted on a map of the western United States The Roaring Fork River is a tributary of the Colorado River, approximately 70 mi (113 km) long, in west central Colorado in the United States. ...
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The Virgin River, a tributary of the Colorado, is shown highlighted on a map of the southwestern United States The Virgin River is a tributary of the Colorado River, 200 mi (322 km) long, in the southwestern United States. ...
The Williams Fork River is a tributary of the Colorado River, approximately 30 mi (48 km) long, in north central Colorado in the United States. ...
| | Major reservoirs | Fontenelle Reservoir • Flaming Gorge Reservoir • Taylor Park Reservoir • Navajo Reservoir • Lake Powell • Lake Mead • Lake Mohave • Lake Havasu Fontenelle Reservoir is a reservoir located in southwest Wyoming. ...
Flaming Gorge Reservoir lies 43 miles (69 km) East of Vernal, Utah on the Green River (Utah). ...
The Taylor Park Reservoir is a body of water created by the Taylor Park Dam, which dams the Taylor River of Colorado. ...
The Navajo Reservoir is a reservoir located in the northwest area of New Mexico and the southwest area of Colorado, in the United States. ...
Lake Powell is a man-made reservoir on the Colorado River, straddling the border between Utah and Arizona. ...
Lake Mead is the largest man-made lake and reservoir in the United States. ...
Lake Mohave Lake Mohave is a lake formed by Davis Dam on the Colorado River, which defines the border between Nevada and Arizona in the United States. ...
Lake Havasu is a large reservoir behind Parker Dam on the Colorado River, on the border between California and Arizona. ...
| | Dependent states | Arizona • California • Colorado • Nevada • New Mexico • Utah • Wyoming (See: Colorado River Compact) Official language(s) English Spoken language(s) English 74. ...
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Official language(s) English Demonym Coloradan Capital Denver Largest city Denver Largest metro area Denver-Aurora Metro Area Area Ranked 8th in the US - Total 104,185 sq mi (269,837 km²) - Width 280 miles (451 km) - Length 380 miles (612 km) - % water 0. ...
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Official language(s) None Spoken language(s) English 68. ...
This article is about the U.S. state. ...
Official language(s) English Capital Cheyenne Largest city Cheyenne Area Ranked 10th - Total 97,818 sq mi (253,348 km²) - Width 280 miles (450 km) - Length 360 miles (580 km) - % water 0. ...
The Colorado River Compact is a 1922 agreement among seven U.S. states in the basin of the Colorado River in the American Southwest governing the allocation of the rivers water among the parties of the interstate compact. ...
| | Designated areas | Arches National Park • Canyonlands National Park • Colorado National Monument • Dead Horse Point State Park • Glen Canyon National Recreation Area • Grand Canyon National Park • Lake Mead National Recreation Area• Rocky Mountain National Park Arches National Park preserves over 2,000 natural sandstone arches, including the world-famous Delicate Arch, in addition to a variety of unique geological resources and formations. ...
Canyonlands National Park, located near Moab, Utah and the Arches National Park, was designated as a National Park on September 12, 1964. ...
Colorado National Monument is a part of the U.S. National Park Service near the city of Grand Junction, Colorado, in the western part of the state. ...
View of the Colorado River with Dead Horse Point in the middle Dead Horse Point State Park is a Utah state park adjacent to Canyonlands National Park, featuring a dramatic overlook of the Colorado River. ...
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (Glen Canyon NRA) is a recreation and conservation unit of the National Park Service that encompasses the area around Lake Powell in Utah and Arizona, covering 1,254,429 acres (5,076 km²) of mostly desert. ...
Grand Canyon National Park is one of the United States oldest national parks and is located in Arizona. ...
Lake Mead National Recreation Area is located in southern Nevada and northern Arizona. ...
Rocky Mountain National Park is located in the north-central region of the U.S. state of Colorado. ...
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