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The San Juan River

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Steven Chischilly, The San Juan River: .

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The headwaters of the San Juan River begin on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains in southwestern Colorado. The headwaters, located at over 14,000 feet in ele­vation, are the beginning of what down­ stream is to become the second largest tribu­tary to the Colorado River (San Juan River Basin Recovery Implementation Program, 1992). The San Juan River is located within the San Juan River Basin (Fig. 1) which drains approximately 38,000 square miles of south­ western Colorado, northwestern New Mexi­co, southeastern Utah, and northeastern Arizona. Many tributaries add to the San Juan with the largest being the Animas river. The San Juan River flows approximately 360 miles from headwaters in Colorado to the Glen Canyon National [...]

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