The Gila River (/ ˈ h iː l ə /; O'odham [Pima]: Keli Akimel or simply Akimel, Quechan: Haa Siʼil, Maricopa language: Xiil [4]) is a 649-mile-long (1,044 km) [1] tributary of the Colorado River flowing through New Mexico and Arizona in the United States.

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Gila River, river rising in southwestern New Mexico, U.S., in the Elk Mountains, near the Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument. The river, draining 58,100 sq miles (150,500 sq km), flows 630 miles (1,015 km) west and southwest over desert land to the Colorado River at Yuma, Arizona.

At nearly 60,000 square miles, the Gila River watershed covers more area than the entire Green River basin and four times as big as the drainage of Idaho’s Salmon River. Between 1848 and 1853, the Gila River briefly marked the southern boundary of the United States.

The Gila River Indian Community (GRIC) (O'odham language: Keli Akimel Oʼotham, meaning "Gila River People", Maricopa language: Pee-Posh) is an Indian reservation in the U.S. state of Arizona, lying adjacent to the south side of the cities of Chandler and Phoenix, within the Phoenix Metropolitan Area in Pinal and Maricopa counties. The Gila ...

2022年6月1日 · Frequently referred to as southern New Mexico’s lifeblood, the Gila River persists as the state’s last free-flowing river and one of the Western United States’ longest rivers. Despite the many continuous threats, this iconic natural feature …

First there was the land and the river – the Gila River, which flowed westward across south-central Arizona and the surprisingly fertile Sonoran Desert.

2025年2月11日 · The Gila River begins its journey as a convergence of the East, West, and Middle Forks of the River in the Gila National Forest— a site home to the oldest wilderness area in the United States. It rushes through the national forest and New Mexico’s Mogollon Mountains as it descends into the desert.

2025年2月11日 · The only difference today is that we reside on a reservation, the Gila River Indian Community. Today the Akimel O'othom are in the formative process to establish an irrigation system which will provide water to just over 146,000 acres.

4 天之前 · While the Gila River Community Code already enforces a 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew for minors, the executive order moves the start time two hours earlier while keeping the same end time.