Alamosa River

Alamosa River

The Alamosa River is a river in the southern part of the American state of Colorado. It is about fifty-three miles long, flowing roughly east through the San Luis Valley. Its watershed comprises about 148 square miles.

The river's name means "shaded with elms" in Spanish, though the actual trees were cottonwoods.cite book|title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States|year=1905|pages=19|author=Gannett, Henry|url=http://books.google.com/books/pdf/The_Origin_of_Certain_Place_Names_in_the.pdf?id=BqwPAAAAIAAJ&output=pdf&sig=3IVIg6u-evPGlrv4j1uDL7rQ09c]

The river gained a dubious claim to fame when much was rendered devoid of life by the Summitville mine disaster, the worst cyanide spill in United States History.

ee also

*List of rivers in Colorado

References

External links

* [http://www.epa.gov/Region8/community_resources/steward/fact/ala.html epa.gov site]
* [http://www.fws.gov/mountain-prairie/nrda/SummitvilleColo/Summitville.htm fws.gov site]


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