North America

Colorado River

The Colorado River is one of the principal rivers in the and in . The 1,450-mile-long river, the 5th longest in the United States, drains an expansive, arid watershed that encompasses parts of seven U.S. states and two Mexican states.
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  • Type: River
  • Description: major river in the western United States and Mexico
  • Also known as: “Ahan Yava Kothickwa”, “Ancon de San Andres”, “Big River”, “Blue River”, “Bunkara River”, “Buqui Acqumuri”, “Canon of the Colorado River”, “El Rio de Buena Guia”, “Grand River”, “Green River”, “Gritetho”, “Hah Weal Asientic”, “Hahweel”, “Javill”, “Mar Bermejo”, “Nah oon Kara”, “Nah Oon Kara”, “North Fork”, “North Fork Colorado River”, “North Fork of Grand River”, “Pa-na-weap”, “Packet-to”, “Pagah”, “Pocket-to”, “Red River of California”, “Red River of the West”, “Rio Buena Guia”, “Rio Colorado”, “Rio Colorado del Norte”, “Rio Colorado Del Norte”, “Rio Cosnina”, “Rio de Buena Guia”, “Rio de los Martires”, “Rio del Norta”, “Rio del Norte”, “Rio Del Norte”, “Rio del Tizon”, “Rio Del Tizon”, “Rio Grande de Buena Esperanza”, “Rio Grande De Buena Esperanza”, “Rio Grande de los Cosninas”, “Rio Grande de los Martyres”, “Seedekeeden”, “Seeds Keedee”, “Seeds Keeden”, “Seeds Keeder”, “Seeds-ke-Agie”, “Seedskeedee Agie”, “Seedskeeden”, and “Seetes-Ker-Der”
Photo: Der Wolf im Wald, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Colorado River

Latitude of center
33.4856° or 33° 29′ 8″ north
Longitude of center
-114.5932° or 114° 35′ 35″ west
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
way 52246845
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­water
Open­Street­Map feature
water=­river
Geo­Names ID
4013157
Wiki­data ID
Q1265
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Colorado River” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Coloradorivier”
  • Albanian: “Lumi Kolorado”
  • Arabic: “نهر كولورادو”
  • Armenian: “Կոլորադո գետ”
  • Armenian: “Կոլորադո”
  • Asturian: “Colorado”
  • Asturian: “ríu Colorado”
  • Asturian: “Ríu Colorado”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kolorado çayı”
  • Bashkir: “Колорадо”
  • Basque: “Colorado ibaia”
  • Basque: “Colorado”
  • Belarusian: “Каларада”
  • Bengali: “কলোরাডো নদী”
  • Bhojpuri: “कोलोरैडो नदी”
  • Bosnian: “Colorado”
  • Breton: “Colorado”
  • Bulgarian: “Колорадо”
  • Catalan: “Riu Colorado”
  • Cebuano: “Colorado River”
  • Chinese: “Colorado Hô”
  • Chinese: “科罗拉多河”
  • Chinese: “科羅拉多河”
  • Chuvash: “Колорадо”
  • Croatian: “Colorado”
  • Czech: “Colorado”
  • Danish: “Colorado River”
  • Dutch: “Colorado”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نهر كولورادو (نهر)”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نهر كولورادو”
  • Esperanto: “Kolorado”
  • Esperanto: “rivero Kolorado”
  • Estonian: “Colorado jõgi”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Colorado Naddi”
  • Finnish: “Coloradojoki”
  • French: “Colorado”
  • Galician: “Río Colorado”
  • Georgian: “კოლორადო”
  • German: “Colorado River”
  • German: “Colorado”
  • Greek: “Κολοράντο”
  • Greek: “Κολωρᾶδος”
  • Hebrew: “קולורדו”
  • Hindi: “कोलोरेडो नदी”
  • Hungarian: “Aha Kwahwat”
  • Hungarian: “Colorado River”
  • Hungarian: “Colorado”
  • Icelandic: “Colorado-fljót”
  • Ido: “Kolorado-rivero”
  • Indonesian: “Sungai Colorado”
  • Irish: “Colorado (Abhainn)”
  • Irish: “Colorado”
  • Italian: “Colorado River”
  • Italian: “Colorado”
  • Japanese: “コロラド川”
  • Kabyle: “Asif n Colorado”
  • Kazakh: “Колорадо өзені”
  • Kazakh: “Колорадо”
  • Kirghiz: “Колорадо дарыясы”
  • Korean: “콜로라도강”
  • Kurdish: “Çemê Kolorado”
  • Latin: “Coloratum Flumen”
  • Latin: “Flumen Coloratum”
  • Latvian: “Kolorādo”
  • Lithuanian: “Koloradas”
  • Lombard: “Colorado”
  • Luxembourgish: “Colorado River”
  • Macedonian: “Колорадо”
  • Malay: “Sungai Colorado”
  • Malayalam: “കൊളറാഡോ നദി”
  • Marathi: “कॉलोराडो नदी”
  • Mazanderani: “کلرادو درکا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Colorado Hô”
  • Mingrelian: “კოლორადო”
  • Mongolian: “Колорадо мөрөн”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “واد كولورادو”
  • Northern Frisian: “Colorado River”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Colorado (elv)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Colorado”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Coloradoelven”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Colorado-elva”
  • Norwegian: “Coloradoelven”
  • Nyanja: “Mtsinje wa Colorado”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Colorado”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੋਲੋਰਾਡੋ ਦਰਿਆ”
  • Persian: “آها کواوات”
  • Persian: “رودخانه کلرادو”
  • Piemontese: “Colorado (fium)”
  • Piemontese: “Colorado”
  • Polish: “Kolorado”
  • Portuguese: “Colorado”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Colorado”
  • Romanian: “Colorado”
  • Romanian: “Fluviul Colorado”
  • Russian: “Колорадо (река, впадает в Калифорнийский залив)”
  • Russian: “Колорадо (река)”
  • Russian: “Колорадо”
  • Serbian: “Колорадо”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Colorado”
  • Slovak: “Colorado”
  • Slovenian: “Colorado River”
  • Slovenian: “Kolorado”
  • Slovenian: “Rio Colorado”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کولورادو چایی”
  • Spanish: “Río Colorado”
  • Swahili: “Mto Colorado”
  • Swedish: “Coloradofloden”
  • Tamil: “கொலராடோ ஆறு”
  • Telugu: “కొలరాడో నది”
  • Thai: “แม่น้ำโคโลราโด”
  • Tibetan: “ཁོ་ལོ་ར་ཌོ་གཙང་པོ།”
  • Turkish: “Colorado Nehri”
  • Turkish: “Kolorado Nehri”
  • Ukrainian: “Колорадо”
  • Urdu: “دریائے کولوراڈو”
  • Uzbek: “Kolorado”
  • Venetian: “Colorado”
  • Vietnamese: “sông Colorado”
  • Vietnamese: “Sông Colorado”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Salog Colorado”
  • Welsh: “Afon Colorado”
  • Western Frisian: “Kolorado”
  • Western Panjabi: “دریاۓ کولوراڈو”
  • Wu Chinese: “科罗拉多河”
  • Yakut: “Колорадо”
  • Yue Chinese: “哥羅拉度河”
  • “कोलोरैडो नदी”

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