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We went camping for 4 days at the headwaters of the Rio Grande river in Colorado. The river originates in a large valley, where water seeps up from an unseen underground source. Little canals join to form the Rio Grande:
Immediately after this valley/swamp source, is a Dam, that forms the Rio Grande Reservoir - we drove beside the Reservoir and it was right at 3 miles long, a tremendous amount of water is stored, released as to please the farmers in the San Luis Valley where they use 80% of all the water from the upper Rio Grande to irrigate crops:
The river meanders it's way through the mountains, headed for the San Luis Valley in Colorado, then runs the length of New Mexico, becomes the border of US/Mexico through much of Texas then enters Mexico where it empties into the Gulf of Mexico:
As it exits the highest ground, the surrounding forest burned in 2013, leaving thousands and thousands of 'snags' (burnt, dead trees):
The Rio Grande, the 5th longest river in the USA
Immediately after this valley/swamp source, is a Dam, that forms the Rio Grande Reservoir - we drove beside the Reservoir and it was right at 3 miles long, a tremendous amount of water is stored, released as to please the farmers in the San Luis Valley where they use 80% of all the water from the upper Rio Grande to irrigate crops:
The river meanders it's way through the mountains, headed for the San Luis Valley in Colorado, then runs the length of New Mexico, becomes the border of US/Mexico through much of Texas then enters Mexico where it empties into the Gulf of Mexico:
As it exits the highest ground, the surrounding forest burned in 2013, leaving thousands and thousands of 'snags' (burnt, dead trees):
The Rio Grande, the 5th longest river in the USA
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