a river in Texas; flows southeast into the Gulf of Mexico
an important river in the southwestern United States; rises in the Rocky Mountains of northern Colorado and flows southwest through Utah into Arizona (where it flows through the Grand Canyon) and then southward through the southern tip of Nevada, then forming the border between California and Arizona and finally into Mexico where it empties into the Gulf of California; the main source of water in the southwestern United States
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We went white-water rafting on the Colorado River. 我们到科罗拉多河湍急的河水中划皮划艇。
To deal with the water shortage, Las Vegas sends some of its used water back into the Colorado River to use again. 为了解决水资源短缺的问题,拉斯维加斯将其已利用过的水流回至科罗拉多河,以便重复利用。