Category:Colorado River


 * ''For other uses, see Colorado River (disambiguation).

The Colorado River is a river in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, approximately 1,450 mi (2,330 km) long, draining a part of the arid regions on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains. The Colorado River also drains very small portions of the southeastern California deserts, parts of southern Nevada (as drainages to Lake Mead, including Las Vegas), and nearly all of the state of Arizona.

The natural course of the river flows from 16 mi north of Grand Lake, Colorado, into the Gulf of California, but the heavy use of the river as an irrigation source for the Imperial Valley has desiccated the lower course of the river in Mexico such that it no longer consistently reaches the sea.
 * ''See also:Category:Rio Grande.