Cañón del Colorado en helicóptero
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- Distance
- 184.53 mi
- Elevation gain
- 12,136 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Experts only
- Elevation loss
- 12,136 ft
- Max elevation
- 5,521 ft
- TrailRank
- 32
- Min elevation
- 1,063 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Moving time
- one hour 41 minutes
- Time
- 2 hours 20 minutes
- Coordinates
- 5132
- Uploaded
- April 21, 2019
- Recorded
- April 2019
near Paradise, Nevada (United States)
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Las Vegas, Hoover Dam, Lake Mead, Grand Canyon West from above and from within, breathtaking Colorado River flow
The Colorado River is a river in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico that flows southwest and south through the states of Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada and California, in the United States, and Baja California Norte and Sonora, in Mexico, flowing into the Gulf of California or the Sea of Cortez (Pacific Ocean). At 2333 km in length, it is the fifth longest river in North America - behind the Missouri, Mississippi, Bravo and Arkansas.
Born in La Poudre Pass, a small town located at 3100 m altitude in the Rocky Mountains, north of the state of Colorado. A short section flows to the south, draining into the Great Lake (Colorado); from there it flows in a southwest direction for about 300 km until it reaches Grand Junction, where it turns northwest and a few kilometers later it turns again to the southwest, enters Utah, passes through Moab, receives the right to the Green River and drains into Lake Powell . When leaving this lake, already in Arizona, it passes through Page in the south direction, and turns towards the northwest-west forming the great wonder of the Grand Canyon. Then it drains into Lake Mead, a few kilometers east of Las Vegas, forming a border between Nevada and Arizona, and leaving this lake, heading south, continues to form a border between these two states, reaches Lake Mohave, passes through Bullhead City , begins to form a border between California and Arizona, reaches Lake Havasu and Lake Havasu City, continues south for about 250 km and reaches Mexico, where it forms a border between Baja California and Sonora, and empties into the Gulf of California or Cortés (Pacific Ocean).
Until 1921, the name Colorado River was applied to the watercourse from the junction of the Grand River and the Verde River in the state of Utah. That same year, at the request of the state of Colorado, it was renamed the Colorado River to the entire water course that starts in the Rocky Mountains.
Currently, the Colorado River Delta is within the ecological area protected by the Mexican Government of the Upper Gulf of California and the Colorado River Delta.
The Colorado Canyon
In its course it has formed one of the great wonders of nature by carving in its path a series of canyons in the state of Arizona, known as the Grand Canyon of the Colorado. The Colorado enters the state of Arizona from Utah. It runs for approximately 350 km through the Canyon area and forms the natural border between Nevada and Arizona, Arizona and California, and the Mexican states of Sonora and Baja California. Its most important tributaries in Arizona are the Gila, Little Colorado and Bill Williams rivers. Arizona has only natural lakes, but some dams have created artificial lakes, among which Lake Powell, Mead, Mojave, Havasu, San Carlos, Theodore Roosevelt and Apache.
The Colorado River is the main water supplier of the arid zones of the basin that it crosses; in some cases it represents the only source of available water. Several dams were built in the last century in order to take advantage of the resources that water represents, as a support for human, animal and agricultural life, and as a source of hydroelectric energy.
In the United States, the Glen Canyon, Hoover, Parker and Davis dams were built. On the Mexican side, the Morelos dam was built near the border with California and Arizona. By an international treaty between the two countries, Mexico has the right to receive a certain amount of water from the river. The Colorado River has not discharged its flows in the Gulf of California for many years, a fact that has affected the ecosystem of the delta (mouth) of the Colorado. It is impressive to think that the passage of the river has sculpted the Canyon of the Colorado throughout history and that at the present time the overexploitation of its hydric resources prevents that in certain times of the year water arrives to its mouth in the High gulf of California and delta of the Colorado River.
The first European who explored the entire Gulf of California and discovered the mouth of the Colorado River was the navigator Francisco de Ulloa, who traveled both sides of the Gulf in 1539.
Hernán Cortés, who had already sponsored three voyages of exploration of the South Sea (Pacific Ocean), which had ended in failure, decided to send a fourth voyage of exploration to the South Sea under Francisco de Ulloa in 1539. He left the expedition of the port of Acapulco on July 8 of the aforementioned year, aboard the Santo Tomás, Santa Águeda and Trinidad ships. At the height of the Marias Islands they were forced to abandon the Santo Tomas ship, so they continued the exploration trip on the two remaining ships.
They entered the Gulf of California, on the outward journey or upstream, they reached the northern end of the Gulf on September 28, a site that is now known as the mouth of the Colorado River. They called the mouth of the Ancón de San Andrés river. A short report was drawn up, the text of which is transcribed:
I Pedro de Palenzia, public scribe of this armed, I give faith and true testimony to all the masters who see it, whom God our Lord keep evil, as in twenty-eight days of September five hundred and thirty nine years , the very magnifcient Mr. Francisco de Ulloa, lieutenant of governor and captain of this one armed by the most excellent Mr. Marqués of the Valley of Guajaca, took possession in the ancón of San Andrés and mar bermeja, that is in the coast of New Spain would do the North, that is in height of thirty-three and a half degrees, by the said Mr. Marqués del Valle in the name of the Emperor our King of Castile, currently and really, putting his hand to the sword, saying that if he had any person who contradicted him, that he was ready to defend it, cutting with it trees, plucking herbs, waving stones from one part to another, and drawing water from the sea; all in sign of possession.
Witnesses who were present at what was said are the reverend parents of Mr. San Francisco, Father Fray Raymundo, Father Fray Antonio de Mena, Francisco de Terrazas, veedor Diego de Haro, Gabriel Marquez. Date month and year above. And I, Pedro de Palenzia, public scribe of that armed party, wrote to him according to what happened to me; therefore, here is my sign, which is such, in true testimony. - Pedro de Palencia, public notary. Frater Ramundus Alilius, Frater Antonius de Mena, -Gabriel Márquez. -Diego de Haro. -Francisco de Terrazas.
After having disembarked and taken possession of the lands of the extreme north of the Bermeja (Gulf of California), name given by the reddish coloration of the waters that were dyed with the waters from the Colorado River, they began the return trip and They passed through the town of Santa Cruz, now known as La Paz (Baja California Sur), folded Cabo San Lucas and entered the Pacific Ocean. For the current Magdalena Bay he passed on December 5 without having been admitted because Francisco de Ulloa was wounded because of a skirmish he had with the natives.
On April 5, 1540, he addressed to Cortés from the island of Cedros a list of the events of the exploration on one of the two ships. In the other he continued with the exploration. Never more was heard of Francisco de Ulloa and his sailing companions.
The Colorado River is a river in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico that flows southwest and south through the states of Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada and California, in the United States, and Baja California Norte and Sonora, in Mexico, flowing into the Gulf of California or the Sea of Cortez (Pacific Ocean). At 2333 km in length, it is the fifth longest river in North America - behind the Missouri, Mississippi, Bravo and Arkansas.
Born in La Poudre Pass, a small town located at 3100 m altitude in the Rocky Mountains, north of the state of Colorado. A short section flows to the south, draining into the Great Lake (Colorado); from there it flows in a southwest direction for about 300 km until it reaches Grand Junction, where it turns northwest and a few kilometers later it turns again to the southwest, enters Utah, passes through Moab, receives the right to the Green River and drains into Lake Powell . When leaving this lake, already in Arizona, it passes through Page in the south direction, and turns towards the northwest-west forming the great wonder of the Grand Canyon. Then it drains into Lake Mead, a few kilometers east of Las Vegas, forming a border between Nevada and Arizona, and leaving this lake, heading south, continues to form a border between these two states, reaches Lake Mohave, passes through Bullhead City , begins to form a border between California and Arizona, reaches Lake Havasu and Lake Havasu City, continues south for about 250 km and reaches Mexico, where it forms a border between Baja California and Sonora, and empties into the Gulf of California or Cortés (Pacific Ocean).
Until 1921, the name Colorado River was applied to the watercourse from the junction of the Grand River and the Verde River in the state of Utah. That same year, at the request of the state of Colorado, it was renamed the Colorado River to the entire water course that starts in the Rocky Mountains.
Currently, the Colorado River Delta is within the ecological area protected by the Mexican Government of the Upper Gulf of California and the Colorado River Delta.
The Colorado Canyon
In its course it has formed one of the great wonders of nature by carving in its path a series of canyons in the state of Arizona, known as the Grand Canyon of the Colorado. The Colorado enters the state of Arizona from Utah. It runs for approximately 350 km through the Canyon area and forms the natural border between Nevada and Arizona, Arizona and California, and the Mexican states of Sonora and Baja California. Its most important tributaries in Arizona are the Gila, Little Colorado and Bill Williams rivers. Arizona has only natural lakes, but some dams have created artificial lakes, among which Lake Powell, Mead, Mojave, Havasu, San Carlos, Theodore Roosevelt and Apache.
The Colorado River is the main water supplier of the arid zones of the basin that it crosses; in some cases it represents the only source of available water. Several dams were built in the last century in order to take advantage of the resources that water represents, as a support for human, animal and agricultural life, and as a source of hydroelectric energy.
In the United States, the Glen Canyon, Hoover, Parker and Davis dams were built. On the Mexican side, the Morelos dam was built near the border with California and Arizona. By an international treaty between the two countries, Mexico has the right to receive a certain amount of water from the river. The Colorado River has not discharged its flows in the Gulf of California for many years, a fact that has affected the ecosystem of the delta (mouth) of the Colorado. It is impressive to think that the passage of the river has sculpted the Canyon of the Colorado throughout history and that at the present time the overexploitation of its hydric resources prevents that in certain times of the year water arrives to its mouth in the High gulf of California and delta of the Colorado River.
The first European who explored the entire Gulf of California and discovered the mouth of the Colorado River was the navigator Francisco de Ulloa, who traveled both sides of the Gulf in 1539.
Hernán Cortés, who had already sponsored three voyages of exploration of the South Sea (Pacific Ocean), which had ended in failure, decided to send a fourth voyage of exploration to the South Sea under Francisco de Ulloa in 1539. He left the expedition of the port of Acapulco on July 8 of the aforementioned year, aboard the Santo Tomás, Santa Águeda and Trinidad ships. At the height of the Marias Islands they were forced to abandon the Santo Tomas ship, so they continued the exploration trip on the two remaining ships.
They entered the Gulf of California, on the outward journey or upstream, they reached the northern end of the Gulf on September 28, a site that is now known as the mouth of the Colorado River. They called the mouth of the Ancón de San Andrés river. A short report was drawn up, the text of which is transcribed:
I Pedro de Palenzia, public scribe of this armed, I give faith and true testimony to all the masters who see it, whom God our Lord keep evil, as in twenty-eight days of September five hundred and thirty nine years , the very magnifcient Mr. Francisco de Ulloa, lieutenant of governor and captain of this one armed by the most excellent Mr. Marqués of the Valley of Guajaca, took possession in the ancón of San Andrés and mar bermeja, that is in the coast of New Spain would do the North, that is in height of thirty-three and a half degrees, by the said Mr. Marqués del Valle in the name of the Emperor our King of Castile, currently and really, putting his hand to the sword, saying that if he had any person who contradicted him, that he was ready to defend it, cutting with it trees, plucking herbs, waving stones from one part to another, and drawing water from the sea; all in sign of possession.
Witnesses who were present at what was said are the reverend parents of Mr. San Francisco, Father Fray Raymundo, Father Fray Antonio de Mena, Francisco de Terrazas, veedor Diego de Haro, Gabriel Marquez. Date month and year above. And I, Pedro de Palenzia, public scribe of that armed party, wrote to him according to what happened to me; therefore, here is my sign, which is such, in true testimony. - Pedro de Palencia, public notary. Frater Ramundus Alilius, Frater Antonius de Mena, -Gabriel Márquez. -Diego de Haro. -Francisco de Terrazas.
After having disembarked and taken possession of the lands of the extreme north of the Bermeja (Gulf of California), name given by the reddish coloration of the waters that were dyed with the waters from the Colorado River, they began the return trip and They passed through the town of Santa Cruz, now known as La Paz (Baja California Sur), folded Cabo San Lucas and entered the Pacific Ocean. For the current Magdalena Bay he passed on December 5 without having been admitted because Francisco de Ulloa was wounded because of a skirmish he had with the natives.
On April 5, 1540, he addressed to Cortés from the island of Cedros a list of the events of the exploration on one of the two ships. In the other he continued with the exploration. Never more was heard of Francisco de Ulloa and his sailing companions.
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Interior del Grand Canyon West
Grand Canyon West from within, breathtaking the Colorado River flow and being within this wonder of nature
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