The Sacramento Valley of northwestern

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is a north–south trending valley west and southwest of Kingman in

Mohave County Mohave County is in the northwestern corner of the U.S. state of Arizona. As of the 2020 census, its population was 213,267. The county seat is Kingman, and the largest city is Lake Havasu City. It is the fifth largest county in the United St ...

. The valley lies just east of the southern section of the Black Mountains.

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traverses the valley north–south. The

Sacramento Wash The Sacramento Wash is a major drainage of northwest Arizona in Mohave County, Arizona, 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&n ...

is the first southerly drainage south of the ''Havasu-Mohave Lakes Watershed'' entering the east bank of the south-flowing

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. The ''Sacramento Wash Watershed'' flows south-then-westerly into the Colorado; Kingman lies in the northeast of the ''

Watershed'' on the water divide with the ''Hualapai Wash Watershed'' lying to the east, that flows north into the Colorado River as it enters

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External links

Sacramento Wash Watershed Map
Tributary valleys of the Lower Colorado River Valley Valleys of Arizona Rivers of Mohave County, Arizona Washes of Arizona {{MohaveCountyAZ-geo-stub