Morelos Dam
The Morelos Dam was built in 1950 across the Colorado River following a 1944 treaty between the United States and Mexico. It is located about 1 mile below the junction of the California border and the Colorado River between the town of Los Algodones, Baja California, in northwestern Mexico and Yuma County, Arizona in the southwestern United States.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Pilot Knob.
Pilot Knob
Peak
Pilot Knob is a peak in Imperial County, California. Pilot Knob is located 8 miles southeast of Ogilby, It rises to an elevation of 876 feet. Pilot Knob is a rocky landform, geologically a Volcanic plug, west of Yuma, Arizona–Winterhaven, California; it is connected to the Cargo Muchacho Mountains, the central portion of the mountains being about 7 miles north. Pilot Knob is situated 2 miles northwest of Morelos Dam.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Los Algodones and Andrade.
Los Algodones
Los Algodones or Vicente Guerrero is a town in Baja California, Mexico, approximately 16 km west of Yuma, Arizona. The northernmost town in Mexico, Los Algodones has the distinction that a person traveling from it in any of the four cardinal directions would reach a border with the US.
Andrade
Hamlet
Andrade is a small locale in the southeasternmost corner of the state of California, in Imperial County. The community is located entirely within the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation.
Felicity
Hamlet
Photo: Perdelsky, Public domain.Morelos Dam
- Type: Dam
- Description: the Morelos Dam was built in 1950 across the Colorado River
- Location: Yuma County, Arizona, Southwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.70523° or 32° 42′ 19″ north
Longitude
-114.72857° or 114° 43′ 43″ west
Elevation
112 feet (34 metres)
Inception
1950
Height
37 feet (11 metres)
Operator
International Boundary and Water Commission
Open location code
8547P74C+3H
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=dam
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Persian—“Morelos Dam” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Morelos Dam”
- Chinese: “莫雷洛斯大坝”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سد موريلوس”
- Hebrew: “סכר מורלוס”
- Italian: “diga di Morelos”
- Persian: “سد مورلوس”
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