Dolores River
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The Dolores River is a tributary of the Colorado River, approximately 241 miles long, in the U.S. states of Colorado and Utah. The river drains a rugged and arid region of the Colorado Plateau west of
The Dolores River in Dolores, Colorado.
Headwaters of the Dolores River
View of McPhee Dam and Reservoir, in Montezuma County, Colorado
Diversion Dam Rapid in 2011 at 700 cfs
Cortez, Colorado
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Cortez is a home-rule municipality that is the county seat of and the most populous municipality in Montezuma County, Colorado, United States. The city's population was 8,766 at the 2020 United States
Dolores River
…created a water gap here; instead, the canyon may have been formed by glaciation during the Paleozoic. The Dolores is dammed at McPhee Reservoir near Cortez, Colorado to irrigate about 61,660 acres (24,950 ha) of arid plateau land. The dam and diversion canals are operated by the Bureau of Reclamation as the Dolores…
Cortez city hall, built in 2017.
View looking southeast of Main Street in Cortez, with the cliff faces of the Mesa Verde visible in the distance