NOUN
- a river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River
How To Use Gila River In A Sentence
- `In that country which lies around the headwater of the Gila River I was reared. PAINT THE WIND
- A network of desert springs known as Bylas Springs, lying adjacent to the Gila River on the San Carlos Indian Reservation in Arizona, was once home to a thriving population of Gila topminnows.
- One is called the beaded lizard and this is called the Gila monster because it's from the Gila River area. CNN Transcript Jan 5, 2008
- A few Pima grew crops and hunted in the nearby Gila River Valley, but the old extensive irrigation system was now virtually unknown to those who lived along the Salt.
- My own work at Gila River has examined specific conflicts between biomedical and Pima health cultures, particularly conceptual disagreements.
- The Gila topminnow historically occurred throughout the Gila River drainage in Arizona, and even into New Mexico and Mexico.
- Although the year of Geronimo's birth remains obscure, he was born a Bedonkohe Apache around the headwaters of the Gila River in the mountains of southwestern New Mexico.
