Las Vegas Wash
Las Vegas Wash is a 12-mile-long stream which feeds most of the Las Vegas Valley's excess water into Lake Mead. The wash is sometimes called an urban river, and it exists in its present capacity because of an urban population.Photo: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Stream
- Description: channel which feeds most of the Las Vegas Valley’s excess water into Lake Mead
- Also known as: “Vegas Wash” and “Yegas Wash”
Las Vegas Wash
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Clark, Nevada, Southwest, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Venetian—“Las Vegas Wash” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Las Vegas Wash”
- Cebuano: “Las Vegas Wash”
- Chinese: “拉斯維加斯河”
- Dutch: “Las Vegas Wash”
- German: “Las Vegas Wash”
- Venetian: “Las Vegas Wash”
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Notable Places Nearby
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