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Gunnison River

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The Gunnison River is a tributary of the Colorado River, long,U.S. Geological Survey. [1]

38 relations: Almont, Colorado, Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, Blue Mesa Dam, Blue Mesa Reservoir, Cimarron River (Gunnison River), Colorado, Colorado River, Colorado River Storage Project, Crystal Dam, Crystal Reservoir, Delta, Colorado, Dominguez–Escalante expedition, East River (Colorado), Geographic Names Information System, Google Earth, Grand Junction, Colorado, Gunnison County, Colorado, Gunnison Tunnel, Gunnison, Colorado, John Williams Gunnison, Juan Rivera (explorer), Kannah Creek, Lake Fork Gunnison River, List of rivers of Colorado, List of tributaries of the Colorado River, Morrow Point Dam, Morrow Point Reservoir, NASA Earth Observatory, Pahvant, Smith Fork (Colorado), Southwestern United States, Taylor River (Colorado), Tributary, U.S. state, Uncompahgre River, Uncompahgre Valley, United States Geological Survey, Ute people.

Almont, Colorado

Almont is an unincorporated community and U.S. Post Office in Gunnison County, Colorado, United States.

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Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park

Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park is an American national park located in western Colorado and managed by the National Park Service.

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Blue Mesa Dam

Blue Mesa Dam is a zoned earthfill dam on the Gunnison River in Colorado.

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Blue Mesa Reservoir

Blue Mesa Reservoir is an artificial reservoir located on the upper reaches of the Gunnison River in Gunnison County, Colorado.

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Cimarron River (Gunnison River)

The Cimarron River is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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Colorado

Colorado is a state of the United States encompassing most of the southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains.

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Colorado River

The Colorado River is one of the principal rivers of the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico (the other being the Rio Grande).

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Colorado River Storage Project

The Colorado River Storage Project is a United States Bureau of Reclamation project designed to oversee the development of the upper Colorado River basin.

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Crystal Dam

Crystal Dam is a double curvature, concrete thin arch dam located six miles downstream from Morrow Point Dam on the Gunnison River in Colorado, United States.

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Crystal Reservoir

Crystal Reservoir is a 340-acre artificial reservoir on the Gunnison River in western Colorado.

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Delta, Colorado

The City of Delta is the Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Delta County, Colorado, United States.

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Dominguez–Escalante expedition

The Domínguez–Escalante expedition was a Spanish journey of exploration conducted in 1776 by two Franciscan priests, Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, to find an overland route from Santa Fe, New Mexico to their Roman Catholic mission in Monterey, on the coast of northern California.

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East River (Colorado)

East River is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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Geographic Names Information System

The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database that contains name and locative information about more than two million physical and cultural features located throughout the United States of America and its territories.

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Google Earth

Google Earth is a computer program that renders a 3D representation of Earth based on satellite imagery.

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Grand Junction, Colorado

The city of Grand Junction is the home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Mesa County, Colorado, United States.

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Gunnison County, Colorado

Gunnison County is the fifth-most extensive of the 64 counties in the U.S. state of Colorado.

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Gunnison Tunnel

The Gunnison Tunnel is an irrigation tunnel constructed between 1905 and 1909 by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation in Montrose County, Colorado.

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Gunnison, Colorado

The City of Gunnison is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Gunnison County, Colorado, United States.

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John Williams Gunnison

John Williams Gunnison (November 11, 1812 – October 26, 1853) was an American military officer and explorer.

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Juan Rivera (explorer)

Juan Maria Antonio Rivera (also spelled Ribera) was an 18th-century Spanish explorer who explored southwestern North America, including parts of Southern Rocky Mountains.

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Kannah Creek

Kannah Creek is a watershed that descends from the top of the Grand Mesa west southwest, where it meets the Gunnison River about 25 miles south of Grand Junction, Colorado.

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Lake Fork Gunnison River

Lake Fork Gunnison River or Lake Fork is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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List of rivers of Colorado

This is a list of streams in the U.S. state of Colorado.

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List of tributaries of the Colorado River

The principal tributaries of the Colorado River of North America are the Gila River, the San Juan River, the Green River, and the Gunnison River.

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Morrow Point Dam

Morrow Point Dam is a concrete double-arch dam on the Gunnison River located in Colorado, the first dam of its type built by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.

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Morrow Point Reservoir

Morrow Point Reservoir is an 817-acre artificial reservoir on the Gunnison River in western Colorado.

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NASA Earth Observatory

NASA Earth Observatory is an online publishing outlet for NASA which was created in 1999.

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Pahvant

Pahvant (Pavant, Parant, Pahva-nits) was a band of Ute people that lived in present-day Utah.

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Smith Fork (Colorado)

Smith Fork is a tributary of the Gunnison River that flows in Gunnison and Delta counties in western Colorado.

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Southwestern United States

The Southwestern United States (Suroeste de Estados Unidos; also known as the American Southwest) is the informal name for a region of the western United States.

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Taylor River (Colorado)

The Taylor River rises close to Castle Peak in Colorado’s Elk Mountains in the northeast part of Gunnison County, near the Continental Divide.

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Tributary

A tributary or affluent is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or main stem (or parent) river or a lake.

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U.S. state

A state is a constituent political entity of the United States.

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Uncompahgre River

The Uncompahgre River is a tributary of the Gunnison River, approximately 75 mi (121 km) long, in southwestern Colorado in the United States.

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Uncompahgre Valley

The Uncompahgre Valley is an agricultural valley of the Uncompahgre River around the town of Montrose in the western part of the U.S. state of Colorado.

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United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey (USGS, formerly simply Geological Survey) is a scientific agency of the United States government.

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Ute people

Ute people are Native Americans of the Ute tribe and culture and are among the Great Basin classification of Indigenous People.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunnison_River

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