Meaning of Colorado River | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A major river in Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada and California, United States and Baja California and Sonora, Mexico.
2. A river in Texas, United States.
3. A river in Argentina.
4. A river in Potosí, Bolivia.
5. A river in Costa Rica.

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Examples

“Between us and the Colorado river we were aware that the country was extremely poor in grass, and scarce for water, there being many jornadas, (days’ journey,) or long stretches of 40 to 60 miles, without water, where the road was marked by bones of animals.”

“Where the Colorado River forms the boundary between California and Arizona it cuts through a number of volcanic rocks by black, yawning canyons.”

“Along the Colorado River there is no town from Moab in Utah to Needles in California, a distance of over a thousand miles (if we except the two small, improvised, completely artificial company towns connected with the building and operation of Glen Canyon Dam and Boulder Dam).”

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