Colorado River
The Colorado River is an approximately 862-mile-long river in the U.S. state of Texas. It is the 11th longest river in the United States and the longest river with both its source and its mouth within Texas.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Texas, United States
- Also known as: “Gold Creek”
Colorado River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Matagorda, Texas, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Colorado River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Coloradorivier (Texas)”
- Afrikaans: “Coloradorivier”
- Arabic: “نهر كولورادو (تكساس)”
- Arabic: “نهر كولورادو”
- Armenian: “Կոլորադո”
- Asturian: “Ríu Colorado”
- Belarusian: “Каларада (Тэхас)”
- Belarusian: “Каларада”
- Bengali: “কলোরাডো নদী”
- Bulgarian: “Колорадо”
- Catalan: “riu Colorado”
- Catalan: “Riu Colorado”
- Cebuano: “Colorado River”
- Chinese: “科罗拉多河”
- Chinese: “科羅拉多河”
- Chuvash: “Колорадо”
- Croatian: “Colorado”
- Czech: “Colorado”
- Danish: “Colorado River”
- Dutch: “Colorado River”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر كولورادو”
- Esperanto: “Kolorado”
- Esperanto: “rivero Kolorado de Teksaso”
- Esperanto: “rivero Kolorado”
- Estonian: “Colorado jõgi”
- Finnish: “Coloradojoki”
- French: “Colorado”
- German: “Colorado River”
- Hungarian: “Colorado”
- Irish: “Abhainn Colorado”
- Italian: “Colorado del Texas”
- Italian: “Colorado Orientale”
- Italian: “Colorado”
- Japanese: “コロラド川”
- Korean: “콜로라도 강”
- Korean: “콜로라도강”
- Latin: “Flumen Coloratum (Texia)”
- Latin: “Flumen Coloratum”
- Lithuanian: “Koloradas”
- Mingrelian: “კოლორადო (ტეხასი)”
- Mingrelian: “კოლორადო”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Colorado”
- Norwegian: “Colorado”
- Persian: “رودخانه کلرادو”
- Persian: “رودخانهٔ کلرادو”
- Polish: “Colorado”
- Portuguese: “Rio Colorado”
- Russian: “Колорадо (река, впадает в Мексиканский залив)”
- Russian: “Колорадо (река)”
- Russian: “Колорадо”
- Serbian: “Колорадо”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Colorado”
- Slovenian: “Colorado River”
- Slovenian: “Colorado”
- Slovenian: “reka Colorado”
- Spanish: “Rio Colorado”
- Spanish: “Río Colorado”
- Swedish: “Colorado River”
- Swedish: “Coloradofloden”
- Turkish: “Colorado Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Колорадо”
- Venetian: “Colorado”
- Vietnamese: “sông Colorado”
- Welsh: “Afon Colorado”
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