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Alamo River
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The Alamo River (Spanish: Río Álamo) is a
52-mile-long (84 km) river
that flows west and north from the Mexicali Valley (Baja California) across the Imperial Valley (California) and drains into the Salton Sea.
The New River, Alamo River, and the Salton Sea of the 21st century were created in autumn 1904, when the Colorado River, swollen by seasonal rainfall and snow-melt, flowed through a series of three human-engineered openings in the recently constructed levee bank of the Alamo Canal. The resulting flood poured down the canal and breached an Imperial Valley dike. The sudden influx of w...
52.2 mi total
1 sections
2 access points
0 camps
0 rapids
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Click any point for details. Sections without stored geometry are drawn as straight put-in → take-out lines — actual courses follow the river.