Colorado River
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Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Texas
- Counties
- Dawson , Borden
- Location
- Dawson County
- Coordinates
- 32°40′47″N 101°43′51″W / 32.67972°N 101.73083°W / 32.67972; -101.73083
- Elevation
- 2,860 ft (870 m)
- Mouth
- Matagorda Bay
- Length
- 862 mi (1,387 km)
- Basin size
- 39,900 sq mi (103,000 km )
- Average
- 2,609 cu ft/s (73.9 m /s)
- Minimum
- 0 cu ft/s (0 m /s)
- Maximum
- 84,100 cu ft/s (2,380 m /s)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Scurry County
- Continent
- North America
- Image
- Lake austin 2005.jpg
- Length
- 1387
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- Colorado River (Texas)
- topic's main category
- Category:Colorado River (Texas)
- watershed area
- 103341
- Commons category
- Colorado River (Texas)
- mouth of the watercourse
- Gulf of Mexico
- discharge
- 21700
- basin country
- United States
- different from
- Colorado River
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Encyclopedic overview
The Colorado River is an approximately 862-mile-long (1,387 km) 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.
Its drainage basin and some of its usually dry tributaries extend into New Mexico. It flows generally southeast from Dawson County through Ballinger, Marble Falls, Lago Vista, Austin, Bastrop, Smithville, La Grange, Columbus, Wharton, and Bay City, before emptying into the Gulf of Mexico at Matagorda Bay.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Colorado River” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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