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Gila River

noun

A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River. Synonym: Gila.

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... the mountains, some nine miles distant from the Gila River. He states that the reptile he sends was found in one of the shops pertaining to the mine, which had been left unoccupied for ...

— Scientific American Supplement, Vol. XV., No. 388, June 9, 1883 • Various

... Arizona side of the river desert plains are interrupted by desert mountains. Far to the eastward the country rises until the Sierra Madre are reached in New Mexico, where these mountains divide the waters of the Colorado from the Rio Grande del Norte. Here in New Mexico the Gila River has its source. Some of its tributaries rise in the mountains to the south, in the territory belonging to the republic of Mexico, but the Gila gathers the greater part of its waters from a great plateau on the northeast. Its sources are everywhere in pine-clad mountains and plateaus, but ...

— Canyons of the Colorado • J. W. Powell

Words linked to "Gila River" : Gila, nm, Grand Canyon State, AZ, river, New Mexico, Arizona, Land of Enchantment