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class="infobox-caption">Alamo River north of Zenos Road, near <a href="/wiki/Holtville,_California" title="Holtville, California">Holtville, California</a></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Newriverwatershed-1-.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Newriverwatershed-1-.jpg/300px-Newriverwatershed-1-.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="387" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Newriverwatershed-1-.jpg/450px-Newriverwatershed-1-.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Newriverwatershed-1-.jpg/600px-Newriverwatershed-1-.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1415" data-file-height="1826" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Map showing the course of the Alamo River in the United States</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Native name</th><td class="infobox-data nickname"><span title="Spanish-language text"><i lang="es">Río Álamo</i></span> <span class="languageicon" style="font-size:100%; font-weight:normal">(<a href="/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a>)</span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #CEDEFF;color: #202122;">Location</th></tr><tr style="padding: 0 0.6em 0.2em 0.6em;line-height: 1.2em;"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data">Mexico, United States</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #CEDEFF;color: #202122;">Physical characteristics</th></tr><tr style="display:none;"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Source</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Colorado_River" title="Colorado River">Colorado River</a></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0 0.6em 0.2em 0.6em;line-height: 1.2em;"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span style="font-weight:normal"> • location</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Alamo, Baja California, Mexico</td></tr><tr style="padding: 0 0.6em 0.2em 0.6em;line-height: 1.2em;"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span style="font-weight:normal"> • coordinates</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Alamo_River&params=32.68269_N_114.7515656_W_region:MX_type:river"><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">32°40′58″N</span> <span class="longitude">114°45′06″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">32.68269°N 114.7515656°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">32.68269; -114.7515656</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0 0.6em 0.2em 0.6em;line-height: 1.2em;"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span style="font-weight:normal"> • elevation</span></th><td class="infobox-data">36 m (118 ft)</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/River_mouth" title="River mouth">Mouth</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Salton_Sea" title="Salton Sea">Salton Sea</a></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0 0.6em 0.2em 0.6em;line-height: 1.2em;"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display:inline;font-weight:normal"> • coordinates</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Alamo_River&params=33.206517_N_115.61433_W_region:US-CA_type:river"><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">33°12′23″N</span> <span class="longitude">115°36′52″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">33.206517°N 115.61433°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">33.206517; -115.61433</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0 0.6em 0.2em 0.6em;line-height: 1.2em;"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display:inline;font-weight:normal"> • elevation</div></th><td class="infobox-data">−66 m (−217 ft)</td></tr><tr style="padding: 0 0.6em 0.2em 0.6em;line-height: 1.2em;"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Length</th><td class="infobox-data">52 mi (84 km)<sup id="cite_ref-WQCB_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WQCB-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr style="display:none;"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0 0.6em 0.2em 0.6em;line-height: 1.2em;"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Discharge</th><td class="infobox-data"> </td></tr><tr style="padding: 0 0.6em 0.2em 0.6em;line-height: 1.2em;"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span style="font-weight:normal"> • location</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Niland,_California" title="Niland, California">Niland</a>, about 1 mile (1.6 km) above the mouth<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0 0.6em 0.2em 0.6em;line-height: 1.2em;"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span style="font-weight:normal"> • average</span></th><td class="infobox-data">847 cu ft/s (24.0 m<sup>3</sup>/s)<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0 0.6em 0.2em 0.6em;line-height: 1.2em;"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span style="font-weight:normal"> • minimum</span></th><td class="infobox-data">288 cu ft/s (8.2 m<sup>3</sup>/s)</td></tr><tr style="padding: 0 0.6em 0.2em 0.6em;line-height: 1.2em;"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span style="font-weight:normal"> • maximum</span></th><td class="infobox-data">4,500 cu ft/s (130 m<sup>3</sup>/s)</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Alamo River</b> (<a href="/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a>: <i lang="es">Río Álamo</i>) flows west and north from the <a href="/wiki/Mexicali_Municipality" title="Mexicali Municipality">Mexicali Valley</a> (<a href="/wiki/Baja_California" title="Baja California">Baja California</a>) across the <a href="/wiki/Imperial_Valley" title="Imperial Valley">Imperial Valley</a> (<a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>). The 52-mile-long (84 km)<sup id="cite_ref-WQCB_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WQCB-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> river drains into the <a href="/wiki/Salton_Sea" title="Salton Sea">Salton Sea</a>. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/New_River_(Mexico%E2%80%93United_States)" title="New River (Mexico–United States)">New River</a>, Alamo River, and the Salton Sea of the 21st century started in autumn 1904, when the <a href="/wiki/Colorado_River" title="Colorado River">Colorado River</a>, swollen by seasonal rainfall and snow-melt, flowed through a series of three human-engineered openings in the recently constructed levee bank of the <a href="/wiki/Alamo_Canal" title="Alamo Canal">Alamo Canal</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-tait_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tait-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The resulting flood poured down the canal and <a href="/wiki/Dike_breach" class="mw-redirect" title="Dike breach">breached</a> an Imperial Valley dike. The sudden influx of water and the lack of any drainage from the basin resulted in the formation of the Salton Sea; the rivers had re-created a great inland sea in an area that it had frequently inundated before, the <a href="/wiki/Salton_Sink" title="Salton Sink">Salton Sink</a>. </p><p>It took slightly less than two years (March 1905 to February 10, 1907)<sup id="cite_ref-George_Kennan_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-George_Kennan-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to control the Colorado River’s inflow to the Alamo Canal and stop the uncontrolled flooding of the Salton Sink, but the canal was effectively channelized with operational headgates by early 1907. The Alamo and New Rivers continued to flow, but at a lesser rate.<sup id="cite_ref-laflin_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-laflin-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The river was named after the Spanish name for the <a href="/wiki/Populus_fremontii" title="Populus fremontii">Fremont cottonwood</a> that grows in the region.<sup id="cite_ref-BrightGudde1998_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BrightGudde1998-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In most places, the river is a vegetation-choked ravine with a small watercourse at the bottom. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/California_Office_of_Environmental_Health_Hazard_Assessment" title="California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment">California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment</a> has issued a safe eating advisory based on mercury, DDTs, PCBs, and selenium.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alamo_River&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lake_Cahuilla" title="Lake Cahuilla">Lake Cahuilla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Tributaries_of_the_Salton_Sea" title="Category:Tributaries of the Salton Sea">Tributaries of the Salton Sea</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alamo_River&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> 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Beque Canyon</a></li> <li>Horsethief Canyon</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ruby_Canyon" title="Ruby Canyon">Ruby Canyon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Westwater_Canyon" title="Westwater Canyon">Westwater Canyon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cataract_Canyon" title="Cataract Canyon">Cataract Canyon</a></li> <li>Narrow Canyon</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glen_Canyon" title="Glen Canyon">Glen Canyon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grand_Canyon" title="Grand Canyon">Grand Canyon</a> <ul><li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Marble_Canyon" title="Marble Canyon">Marble Canyon</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;">Granite Gorge</span></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;">Middle Granite Gorge</span></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;">Lower Granite Gorge</span></li></ul></li> <li>Grand Wash Canyon</li> <li>Iceberg Canyon</li> <li>Virgin Canyon</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boulder_Canyon_(Colorado_River)" title="Boulder Canyon (Colorado River)">Boulder Canyon</a></li> <li><a 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(Arizona)">Horseshoe Bend</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sonoran_Desert" title="Sonoran Desert">Sonoran Desert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mojave_Desert" title="Mojave Desert">Mojave Desert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lower_Colorado_River_Valley" title="Lower Colorado River Valley">Lower Colorado River Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mohave_Valley" title="Mohave Valley">Mohave Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parker_Valley" title="Parker Valley">Parker Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palo_Verde_Valley" title="Palo Verde Valley">Palo Verde Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colorado_Desert" title="Colorado Desert">Colorado Desert</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Alamo River</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_River_(Mexico%E2%80%93United_States)" title="New River (Mexico–United States)">New River</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salton_Sea" title="Salton Sea">Salton Sea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Imperial_Valley" title="Imperial Valley">Imperial Valley</a></li> <li><a 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