Colorado Nehri: Revizyonlar arasındaki fark

The '''Colorado River''' is a [[river]] in the southwestern [[United States]] and northwestern [[Mexico]]. It is approximately 1,450 mi (2,330 km) long. It drains a part of the arid regions on the western slope of the [[Rocky Mountains]]. The natural course of the river flows into the [[Gulf of California]], but the heavy use of the river as an [[irrigation]] source for the [[Imperial Valley]] has [[desiccation|desiccated]] the lower course of the river in Mexico such that it no longer consistently reaches the sea.On it`s way the Colorado River runs through Colorado, Utah, Arizona and Mexico. The Colorado River drains 242,900 sq mi (629,100 km²). Total flows of the river range from 4000 cubic feet per second (570 m³/s) in droughts to 1,000,000 ft³/s (28,000 m³/s) in severe floods. With the construction of massive power dams on the lower course of the river, floods of over 70,000 ft³/s (2000 m³/s) are rare. The mean flow of the total river before diversion is 22,000 ft³/s. Historically the flow was much higher before water usage began in the basin.

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