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Hualapai Mountains
The Hualapai Mountains are a mountain range located in Mohave County, east of Kingman, Arizona. Rising up to 8,417 feet at its highest peak, the higher elevations of the Hualapai Mountains support Madrean Sky Island habitats, and are host to a plethora of unique flora and fauna in a wide range of microclimates, high above the surrounding Mojave Desert. Etymology Pronounced: "wah-lah-pie" Meaning of "Hualapai" in Hualapai language: "People of the tall Pines". English spelling: Walapai Spanish spelling: Hualapai Most used spelling: Hualapai, though both are acceptable Other names for Hualapai Mountain: Mojave language: ''Amat 'Avii Kahuwaaly'' Geography The Hualapai Mountain range is located in the central portion of the Basin and Range Province of the southwestern United States, and along the western-most extension of the Arizona Transition Zone (or "Central Highlands" of Arizona). Summits ''The most notable peaks in the Hualapai Mountain Range include:'' Hual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hualapai Peak
Hualapai Peak is a mountain summit in Mohave County, Arizona and is the highest point of the Hualapai Mountains. It is located about southeast of Kingman, Arizona, Kingman in Hualapai Mountain County Park. The mountain is characterized by huge granite outcroppings and pillars, a result of its volcanic origin. Although trails lead to its base, a moderate scramble and climb is required to reach the summit. There are also climbing routes along the trail to the peak. It is named after the Hualapai Native American tribe. Hualapai means "people of the tall pines". See also * List of mountain peaks of Arizona References {{Mountains of Arizona Mountains of Arizona Landforms of Mohave County, Arizona North American 2000 m summits ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wabayuma Peak
Wabayuma Peak Wilderness is a protected wilderness area centered around its namesake Wabayuma Peak, rising to 7,601 feet (2316 m) in the Hualapai Mountains in the U.S. state of Arizona. Established in 1990 under the Arizona Desert Wilderness Act the area is managed by the Bureau of Land Management. This desert and mountain wilderness exists in between the Sonoran and Mojave Deserts, filled with massive ridgelines that rise from the desert floor. Vegetation in the mountains is mostly chaparral and pinyon-juniper woodlands, on the higher sections close to the peaks there are groves of ponderosa pine and gambel oak. – Wilderness Connect See also * |
Lake Havasu
Lake Havasu () is a large reservoir formed by Parker Dam on the Colorado River, on the border between San Bernardino County, California and Mohave County, Arizona, Arizona. Lake Havasu City sits on the Arizona (eastern) side of the lake with its Californian counterpart of Havasu Lake directly across the lake. The reservoir has an available capacity of . The concrete arch dam was built by the United States Bureau of Reclamation between 1934 and 1938. The lake's primary purpose is to store water for pumping into two aqueducts. Prior to the dam construction, the area was home to the Mojave people. The lake was named (in 1939) after the Mojave word for ''blue''. In the early 19th century, it was frequented by beaver trappers. Spaniards also began to mine the areas along the river. Aqueducts Mark Wilmer Pumping Plant pumps water into the Central Arizona Project Aqueduct. Whitsett Pumping Plant is located on the lake, and lifts the water for the Colorado River Aqueduct. Gene Pumpi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Williams River
The Bill Williams River is a river in west-central Arizona where it, along with one of its tributaries, the Santa Maria River (Arizona), Santa Maria River, form the boundary between Mohave County, Arizona, Mohave County to the north and La Paz County, Arizona, La Paz County to the south.''Arizona Atlas & Gazetteer,'' DeLorme, 4th ed., 2001, pp. 46-47 It is a major drainage westwards into the Colorado River of the Lower Colorado River Valley south of Hoover Dam and Lake Mead, and the drainage basin covers portions of northwest, and west-central Arizona. The equivalent drainage system paralleling the east–west lower reaches of the Bill Williams is the Gila River, which flows east-to-west across central Arizona, joining the Colorado River in the southwest at Yuma, Arizona, Yuma. The confluence of the Bill Williams River with the Colorado is north of Parker, Arizona, Parker, and south of Lake Havasu City, Arizona, Lake Havasu City. To the north of the river are the Artillery Mounta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alamo Lake
Alamo Lake State Park is a state park of Arizona, USA, centered on Alamo Lake, a flood control and recreational reservoir. The park is located in western Arizona about north of Wenden. It is accessed via a paved two-lane road off either U.S. Route 60 to the south or U.S. Route 93 to the east. Owing to its remoteness, the park is often considered one of the "best kept secrets" of the state park system. Alamo Lake State Park features camping facilities and attracts wildlife enthusiasts, as the park is home to numerous wildlife species including the bald eagle. The park's remoteness and distance from cities also makes it a destination for stargazing, as it is the darkest sky state park in Arizona. Alamo Lake Alamo Lake itself is formed by the Alamo Dam that is part of the Alamo Lake State Park administered by the Arizona State Parks. The lake impounds runoff from the Bill Williams River, an intermittent tributary of the Colorado River. The dam was constructed in 1968 by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Sandy River (Arizona)
The Big Sandy River is both an intermittent and perennial stream in Mohave and La Paz counties in northwestern Arizona in the United States. It begins where Cottonwood Wash and Trout Creek converge in the Hualapai Indian Reservation east of U.S. Route 93 then flows past Wikieup south of Kingman. The Big Sandy River then passes the Signal Ghost Town Site, meanders through the Arrastra Mountain Wilderness, and joins the Santa Maria River in Southern Mohave County to form the Bill Williams River. The Bill Williams River then empties into Alamo Lake State Park. The Big Sandy River is long. The Big Sandy drainage basin covers approximately in Mohave, La Paz, and Yavapai counties. The Hualapai Mountains are west of the river, and the Aquarius and Mohon Mountains lie to the east and southeast, the Juniper Mountains further east, and the Peacock Mountains and Cottonwood Mountains to the north. Hualapai Peak at is the highest point in the basin. The river flows through the Arra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Topock, AZ
Topock ( Mojave: Tuupak) (pronounced ''/'Toe-pock'/'' by locals) is a small unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Mohave County, Arizona, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population within the CDP was 2. Topock and the surrounding region have a ZIP Code of 86436; in 2010, the population of the 86436 ZCTA was 2,104, almost all of whom live in the Golden Shores CDP to the north. Topock lies between Bullhead City and Lake Havasu City and southeast of Needles, California, on the California–Arizona border. It is known for being a boating town as well as being home to the Old Trails Arch Bridge which used to be the old Route 66 bridge featured in the film ''The Grapes of Wrath''. The crossings of the Colorado River at Topock, including the Old Trails Arch Bridge, are also featured prominently in the opening credits of the movie ''Easy Rider''. Topock Marina is located just off I-40 on Historic Route 66. Situated on the Colorado River between Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sacramento Wash
The Sacramento Wash is a major drainage of northwest Arizona in Mohave County. The wash is east of the Black Canyon of the Colorado and drains into the south-flowing Colorado River 45 mi south of Lake Mohave, and 90 mi south of Hoover Dam at Lake Mead. The wash outfall is in the center-south of the Havasu-Mohave Lakes Watershed. An equivalent wash drains to the west of the Colorado River and the Black Canyon, draining southeast Nevada and a small part of California, the Piute Wash of the Piute Valley. The Piute Wash outfall is upstream of the Sacramento's outfall by about 15 miles. Both Piute and Sacramento Washes are ephemeral desert washes which may only have standing water in mountainous canyon tributaries, or in periods of extensive rainfall and cooler weather. Much of the water is also simply infiltrated into groundwater basins. Only one tributary to Sacramento Wash is an intermittent stream, Sawmill Canyon in the northeast region of the Sacramento Valley. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sacramento Valley (Arizona)
The Sacramento Valley of northwestern Arizona is a north–south trending valley west and southwest of Kingman in Mohave County. The valley lies just east of the southern section of the Black Mountains. Interstate 40 in Arizona traverses the valley north–south. The Sacramento Wash is the first southerly drainage south of the ''Havasu-Mohave Lakes Watershed'' entering the east bank of the south-flowing Colorado River. The ''Sacramento Wash Watershed'' flows south-then-westerly into the Colorado; Kingman lies in the northeast of the ''Sacramento Wash Watershed'' on the water divide with the ''Hualapai Wash Watershed'' lying to the east, that flows north into the Colorado River as it enters Lake Mead Lake Mead is a reservoir formed by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River in the Southwestern United States. It is located in the states of Nevada and Arizona, east of Las Vegas. It is the largest reservoir in the US in terms of water capacity. L .... External links Sacramento ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hualapai Wash
The Hualapai (, , yuf-x-wal, Hwalbáy) is a federally recognized Native American tribe in Arizona with about 2300 enrolled members. Approximately 1353 enrolled members reside on the Hualapai Reservation, which spans over three counties in Northern Arizona ( Coconino, Yavapai, and Mohave). The name, meaning "people of the tall pines", is derived from , the Hualapai word for ponderosa pineThe Hualapai Tribe Website Accessed 2020-01-16 and "people". Their traditional territory is a stretch along the pine-clad southern side of the and the with the tribal capital at [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hualapai Valley
Hualapai Valley is a valley in Mohave County, Arizona. Location Hualapai Valley is an endorheic basin and its watershed terminates in the dry lake or playa called Red Lake at an elevation of 2762 feet. It is bounded on the east by the Grand Wash Cliffs and Peacock Mountains, on the south by the Hualapai Mountains, on the west by the Cerbat Mountains and the White Hills. It extends from its divide with Gold Basin at over 2680 feet, southward to Red Lake, and northward from Kingman and the Hualapai Mountains at 4439 feet, to Red Lake. Walapai Walapai is a populated place on Arizona State Route 66 (former U.S. Route 66) in Mohave County, Arizona, United States. Walapai is located in the Hualapai Valley along a railroad line northeast of Kingman. Walapai has a post office A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letters and parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watersheds Of North America
Watersheds of North America are large drainage basins which drain to separate oceans, seas, gulfs, or endorheic basins. There are six generally recognized hydrological continental divides which divide the continent into seven principal drainage basins spanning three oceans (Arctic Ocean, Arctic, Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic and Pacific Ocean, Pacific) and one endorheic basin. The basins are the Atlantic Seaboard basin, the Gulf of Mexico basin, the Great Lakes-Saint Lawrence River, St. Lawrence basin, the Pacific basin, the Arctic basin, the Hudson Bay basin, and the Great Basin. Together, the principal basins span the continent with the exception of numerous smaller endorheic basins. The Atlantic Seaboard basin in eastern North America drains to the Atlantic Ocean; the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence basin in central and eastern North America drains to the Gulf of St. Lawrence on the Atlantic Ocean or to the Labrador Sea; the Gulf of Mexico basin in the southern United States drains to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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