By Drainage Basin

Drainage basin

A drainage basin is an extent or an area of land where surface water from rain and melting snow or ice converges to a single point, usually the exit of the basin, where the waters join another waterbody, such as a river, lake, reservoir, estuary, wetland, sea, or ocean...

Colorado River

• Colorado River
  Colorado River
  The Colorado River , is a river in the Southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, approximately long, draining a part of the arid regions on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains. The watershed of the Colorado River covers in parts of seven U.S. states and two Mexican states...
  
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  • Paria River
    Paria River
    The Paria River is a tributary of the Colorado River, approximately long, in southern Utah and northern Arizona in the United States. It drains a rugged and arid region northwest of the Colorado, flowing through roadless slot canyons along part of its course....
    
    
  • Little Colorado River
    Little Colorado River
    The Little Colorado River is a river in the U.S. state of Arizona, providing the principal drainage from the Painted Desert region. Together with its major tributary, the Puerco River, it drains an area of about in eastern Arizona and western New Mexico...
    
    
    • Puerco River
      Puerco River
      The Puerco River in northwestern New Mexico and northeastern Arizona flows through arid terrain including the Painted Desert. The main tributary of the Little Colorado River, it drains an area of about and is long. The river's average discharge is very low, less than in normal years, because its...
      
      
    • Silver Creek
      Silver Creek (Arizona)
      Silver Creek is a stream located in the White Mountains of Arizona north of Show Low.- External links :* *...
      
      
    • Zuni River
      Zuni River
      The Zuni River, a tributary of the Little Colorado River, has its origin in Cibola County, New Mexico, at the Continental Divide, flowing generally in a southwesterly direction through the Zuni Indian Reservation to join the Little Colorado River in eastern Arizona...
      
      
  • Kanab Creek
    Kanab Creek
    Kanab Creek is one of the many tributaries of the Grand Canyon. It begins in Kane County, Utah, just south of the watershed to the Great Basin and flows south to the Colorado River. It passes Kanab, Utah, crossing the border to Arizona near Fredonia...
    
    
  • Virgin River
    Virgin River
    The Virgin River is a tributary of the Colorado River in the U.S. states of Utah, Nevada, and Arizona. The river is about long. It was designated Utah's first wild and scenic river in 2009, during the centennial celebration of Zion National Park.-Course:...
    
    
  • Bill Williams River
    Bill Williams River
    The Bill Williams River is a river in western-central Arizona in Mohave County; the river proper is the northern border of La Paz County which it drains in the north, as well as areas of far western Yavapai County...
    
    
    • Big Sandy River
      Big Sandy River (Arizona)
      The Big Sandy River is in northwestern Arizona in Mohave County. It begins where Cottonwood Wash and Trout Creek converge in the Hualapai Indian Reservation near Hualapai Peak then flows past Wikieup south of Kingman. It has a length of and joins the Santa Maria River to form Bill Williams River...
      
      
    • Santa Maria River
      Santa Maria River (Arizona)
      The Santa Maria River is an intermittent stream located in western Arizona. It is a primary tributary of the Bill Williams River and one of the main sources of inflow for Alamo Lake...
      
      
  • Gila River
    Gila River
    The Gila River is a tributary of the Colorado River, 650 miles long, in the southwestern states of New Mexico and Arizona.-Description:...
    
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    • San Francisco River
      San Francisco River
      The San Francisco River is a river in the southwest United States, the largest tributary of the Upper Gila River. The river originates in Arizona and flows into New Mexico before it curves around and enters the Gila down stream from Clifton, Arizona....
      
      
      • Blue River
        Blue River, Arizona
        The Blue River is a stream that runs through the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest in Arizona. It arises near Alpine and flows south into the San Francisco River just upstream from Clifton. The Blue River varies in altitude from .- External links :* * *...
        
        
    • Eagle Creek
      Eagle Creek (Arizona)
      Eagle Creek is a river located northwest of Clifton, Arizona, USA, at the base of the White Mountain Range. It is a tributary of the Gila River.- Fish species :* Smallmouth bass* Channel catfish* Flathead catfish* Apache trout* Carp- External links :...
      
      
    • San Pedro River
      • Aravaipa Creek
    • San Simon River
    • San Carlos River
    • Santa Cruz River
      • Cañada del Oro
        Cañada del Oro
        The Cañada del Oro , is a primary watershed channel in the valley of Tucson, Arizona, USA. The word cañada has a tilde and is pronounced in Spanish; in English it is pronounced , not like the country of Canada....
        
        
      • Sonoita Creek
        Sonoita Creek
        Sonoita Creek is a stream in Santa Cruz County, Arizona. It originates near and takes its name from the abandoned Pima mission in the high valley near Sonoita...
        
        
    • Salt River
      Salt River (Arizona)
      The Salt River is a stream in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is the largest tributary of the Gila River. The river is about long. Its drainage basin is about large. The longest of the Salt River's many tributaries is the Verde River...
      
      
      • Arizona Canal
        Arizona Canal
        The Arizona Canal is a major canal in central Maricopa County that led to the founding of several communities, now among the wealthier neighborhoods of suburban Phoenix, in the late 1880s. Flood irrigation of residential yards is still common in these neighborhoods, using a system of lateral...
        
        
      • Verde River
        Verde River
        The Verde River is the north and northwestern watershed of the Salt River–Verde River Watershed that co-join and enter the Gila River at Phoenix, Arizona, located in the U.S. state of Arizona...
        
        
        • Fossil Creek
          Fossil Creek
          Fossil Creek is a perennial river in central Arizona, located near the community of Strawberry. The headwaters of the creek begin at Fossil Springs, a rare and powerful spring in Arizona, which produces upwards of one million gallons of water per hour....
          
          
        • Oak Creek
      • Tonto Creek
        Tonto Creek
        Tonto Creek is a stream located in the Mogollon Rim area of the state of Arizona on the north edge of the Tonto National Forest. The closest town, Payson, is away. Tonto Creek is a stream that flows year round, starting just below the Mogollon Rim, at the northern edge of Tonto National Forest...
        
        
      • White River
      • Black River
        Black River (Arizona)
        The Black River is a river in the White Mountains of Arizona, USA, to the west of Alpine. Along with the Whiteriver, it forms the Salt River, a major tributary of the Gila River.It was named by James Ohio Pattie in 1826 as he explored the area....
        
        
    • Agua Fria River
      Agua Fria River (Arizona)
      The Agua Fria River is a 120 mi/193 km long intermittent stream that flows generally south from 20 miles east northeast of Prescott, Arizona, USA. Prescott draws much of its municipal water supply from the upper Agua Fria drainage. The Agua Fria runs through the Agua Fria National Monument...
      
      
      • New River
    • Hassayampa River
      Hassayampa River
      The Hassayampa River is a mostly underground river, the headwaters of which are just south of Prescott, Arizona, and flows mostly south towards Wickenburg entering the Gila River near Hassayampa, Arizona...
      
      
    • Centennial Wash (Maricopa County)
    • Tenmile Wash
      Tenmile Wash
      Tenmile Wash is an ephemeral wash and watercourse about long in the northern Sonoran Desert of south-central Arizona. It forms the eastern drainage of a two drainage system of dry washes into the Gila River Valley; both flow northwesterly, and the western drainage is the San Cristobal Wash...
      
      
    • San Cristobal Wash
      San Cristobal Wash
      The San Cristobal Wash is an ephemeral wash and watercourse of the San Cristobal Valley, flowing north into the Gila River Valley of the southwestern desert region of Arizona...
      
      

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• Agua Fria River
  Agua Fria River (Arizona)
  The Agua Fria River is a 120 mi/193 km long intermittent stream that flows generally south from 20 miles east northeast of Prescott, Arizona, USA. Prescott draws much of its municipal water supply from the upper Agua Fria drainage. The Agua Fria runs through the Agua Fria National Monument...
  
  
• Aravaipa Creek
• Big Sandy River
  Big Sandy River (Arizona)
  The Big Sandy River is in northwestern Arizona in Mohave County. It begins where Cottonwood Wash and Trout Creek converge in the Hualapai Indian Reservation near Hualapai Peak then flows past Wikieup south of Kingman. It has a length of and joins the Santa Maria River to form Bill Williams River...
  
  
• Bill Williams River
  Bill Williams River
  The Bill Williams River is a river in western-central Arizona in Mohave County; the river proper is the northern border of La Paz County which it drains in the north, as well as areas of far western Yavapai County...
  
  
• Black River
  Black River (Arizona)
  The Black River is a river in the White Mountains of Arizona, USA, to the west of Alpine. Along with the Whiteriver, it forms the Salt River, a major tributary of the Gila River.It was named by James Ohio Pattie in 1826 as he explored the area....
  
  
• Blue River, Arizona
  Blue River, Arizona
  The Blue River is a stream that runs through the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest in Arizona. It arises near Alpine and flows south into the San Francisco River just upstream from Clifton. The Blue River varies in altitude from .- External links :* * *...
  
  
• Bright Angel Creek
  Bright Angel Creek
  Bright Angel Creek is located at the bottom of the Grand Canyon National Park at the end of the Bright Angel Trail on the north side of the Colorado River.-External links:**...
  
  
• Cañada del Oro
  Cañada del Oro
  The Cañada del Oro , is a primary watershed channel in the valley of Tucson, Arizona, USA. The word cañada has a tilde and is pronounced in Spanish; in English it is pronounced , not like the country of Canada....
  
  
• Centennial Wash (Maricopa County)
• Colorado River
  Colorado River
  The Colorado River , is a river in the Southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, approximately long, draining a part of the arid regions on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains. The watershed of the Colorado River covers in parts of seven U.S. states and two Mexican states...
  
  
• Eagle Creek
  Eagle Creek (Arizona)
  Eagle Creek is a river located northwest of Clifton, Arizona, USA, at the base of the White Mountain Range. It is a tributary of the Gila River.- Fish species :* Smallmouth bass* Channel catfish* Flathead catfish* Apache trout* Carp- External links :...
  
  
• Fossil Creek
  Fossil Creek
  Fossil Creek is a perennial river in central Arizona, located near the community of Strawberry. The headwaters of the creek begin at Fossil Springs, a rare and powerful spring in Arizona, which produces upwards of one million gallons of water per hour....
  
  
• Gila River
  Gila River
  The Gila River is a tributary of the Colorado River, 650 miles long, in the southwestern states of New Mexico and Arizona.-Description:...
  
  
• Hassayampa River
  Hassayampa River
  The Hassayampa River is a mostly underground river, the headwaters of which are just south of Prescott, Arizona, and flows mostly south towards Wickenburg entering the Gila River near Hassayampa, Arizona...
  
  
• Kanab Creek
  Kanab Creek
  Kanab Creek is one of the many tributaries of the Grand Canyon. It begins in Kane County, Utah, just south of the watershed to the Great Basin and flows south to the Colorado River. It passes Kanab, Utah, crossing the border to Arizona near Fredonia...
  
  
• Little Colorado River
  Little Colorado River
  The Little Colorado River is a river in the U.S. state of Arizona, providing the principal drainage from the Painted Desert region. Together with its major tributary, the Puerco River, it drains an area of about in eastern Arizona and western New Mexico...
  
  
• New River
• Oak Creek
• Paria River
  Paria River
  The Paria River is a tributary of the Colorado River, approximately long, in southern Utah and northern Arizona in the United States. It drains a rugged and arid region northwest of the Colorado, flowing through roadless slot canyons along part of its course....
  
  
• Puerco River
  Puerco River
  The Puerco River in northwestern New Mexico and northeastern Arizona flows through arid terrain including the Painted Desert. The main tributary of the Little Colorado River, it drains an area of about and is long. The river's average discharge is very low, less than in normal years, because its...
  
  
• Salt River
  Salt River (Arizona)
  The Salt River is a stream in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is the largest tributary of the Gila River. The river is about long. Its drainage basin is about large. The longest of the Salt River's many tributaries is the Verde River...
  
  
• San Carlos River
• San Cristobal Wash
  San Cristobal Wash
  The San Cristobal Wash is an ephemeral wash and watercourse of the San Cristobal Valley, flowing north into the Gila River Valley of the southwestern desert region of Arizona...
  
  
• San Francisco River
  San Francisco River
  The San Francisco River is a river in the southwest United States, the largest tributary of the Upper Gila River. The river originates in Arizona and flows into New Mexico before it curves around and enters the Gila down stream from Clifton, Arizona....
  
  
• San Pedro River
• San Simon River
• Santa Cruz River
• Santa Maria River
  Santa Maria River (Arizona)
  The Santa Maria River is an intermittent stream located in western Arizona. It is a primary tributary of the Bill Williams River and one of the main sources of inflow for Alamo Lake...
  
  
• Silver Creek
  Silver Creek (Arizona)
  Silver Creek is a stream located in the White Mountains of Arizona north of Show Low.- External links :* *...
  
  
• Sonoita Creek
  Sonoita Creek
  Sonoita Creek is a stream in Santa Cruz County, Arizona. It originates near and takes its name from the abandoned Pima mission in the high valley near Sonoita...
  
  
• Tenmile Wash
  Tenmile Wash
  Tenmile Wash is an ephemeral wash and watercourse about long in the northern Sonoran Desert of south-central Arizona. It forms the eastern drainage of a two drainage system of dry washes into the Gila River Valley; both flow northwesterly, and the western drainage is the San Cristobal Wash...
  
  
• Tonto Creek
  Tonto Creek
  Tonto Creek is a stream located in the Mogollon Rim area of the state of Arizona on the north edge of the Tonto National Forest. The closest town, Payson, is away. Tonto Creek is a stream that flows year round, starting just below the Mogollon Rim, at the northern edge of Tonto National Forest...
  
  
• White River
• Verde River
  Verde River
  The Verde River is the north and northwestern watershed of the Salt River–Verde River Watershed that co-join and enter the Gila River at Phoenix, Arizona, located in the U.S. state of Arizona...
  
  
• Virgin River
  Virgin River
  The Virgin River is a tributary of the Colorado River in the U.S. states of Utah, Nevada, and Arizona. The river is about long. It was designated Utah's first wild and scenic river in 2009, during the centennial celebration of Zion National Park.-Course:...
  
  
• Zuni River
  Zuni River
  The Zuni River, a tributary of the Little Colorado River, has its origin in Cibola County, New Mexico, at the Continental Divide, flowing generally in a southwesterly direction through the Zuni Indian Reservation to join the Little Colorado River in eastern Arizona...