NOUN
- an important river in the southwestern United States; rises in the Rocky Mountains of northern Colorado and flows southwest through Utah into Arizona (where it flows through the Grand Canyon) and then southward through the southern tip of Nevada, then forming the border between California and Arizona and finally into Mexico where it empties into the Gulf of California; the main source of water in the southwestern United States
- a river in Texas; flows southeast into the Gulf of Mexico
How To Use Colorado River In A Sentence
- Arriving at Town Lake for the first time, I was struck by the natural beauty of this dammed section of the Colorado river.
- Most of it is the same Colorado River water that rafters bounce on and environmentalists hope to undam upstream.
- The helicopter then descended into the bottom of the canyon and landed on one side of the Colorado River.
- The stunning landscapes of Colorado provide a back drop for the Glen Canyon dam, which is build on the Colorado River in Arizona.
- In one case, we hiked a little up the Little Colorado River to shoot some rapids ‘body-style’ in our life jackets.
- Their neighborhood is being inundated by the rising waters of the Colorado River.
- His exploits on the Colorado River had made him a national hero, the most celebrated adventurer since Lewis and Clark.
- The Colorado River was once an unbroken ribbon of life from the northern Rockies of central Wyoming through the vast arid Southwest into Mexico and eventually the Gulf of California.
- In technical terms the Colorado River is antecedent to the Edwards Plateau and consequent to the Coastal Plain.
- Landowners along the Colorado River, he said, complained that, when the river flooded, people would use airboats to travel and sometimes hunt over their swamped property.
