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Definition of Gila river

1. Noun. A river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gila River

Literary usage of Gila river

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties by United States, Charles Joseph Kappler (1904)
"Also all the land in said Territory bounded and described as follows, viz: 4 miles east from the intersection of said river with the gila river; thence down ..."

2. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1913)
"Its concentration and reduction works, in which ores are treated, are situated upon or adjacent to small streams tributary to the gila river. ..."

3. Across America and Asia: Notes of a Five Years' Journey Around the World and by Raphael Pumpelly (1870)
"But away from the gila river, excepting at a few scattered points, there is no land suitable for cultivation, owing to the absence of ..."

4. Notes of a Military Reconnoissance from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri to San by William Hemsley Emory (1848)
"At this point we left the wagons, thence crossing the mountains to the gila river, some irregularity in the rates is discoverable, until we reach ..."

5. Among the Pimas, Or, the Mission to the Pima and Maricopa Indians. by Charles H. Cook, Isaac T. Whittemore (1893)
"THE gila river RESERVATION—CLIMATE, SOIL, PRODUCTIONS AND ANCIENT RUINS. ... The gila river is capable of furnishing an abundant supply of water, when, ..."

6. Biodiversity and the Management of the Madrean Archipelago: The Sky Islands edited by Leonard F. DeBano (1999)
"The gila river-Sky Island region (GSR) of southern Arizona and New Mexico, situated at the convergence of 4 biogeographic provinces, ranks among the most ..."

7. Irrigation Practice and Engineering by Bernard Alfred Etcheverry (1916)
"The largest part of the area to be irrigated is on the Arizona side of the river and south of the gila river. As originally planned, the canal supplying ..."

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