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Colorado River
Major river in the western United States and Mexico
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The Colorado River (Spanish: Río Colorado) is one of the principal rivers (along with the Rio Grande) in the Southwestern United States and in northern Mexico. The 1,450-mile-long (2,330 km) river, the 5th longest in the United States, drains an expansive, arid watershed that encompasses parts of seven U.S. states and two Mexican states. The name Colorado derives from the Spanish language for "colored reddish" due to its heavy silt load.
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🇺🇸 States miss deadline for Colorado River water-use agreement
After two years of negotiations, seven western states have missed the latest federal deadline to reach an agreement on sharing the Colorado River's dw...
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