SAN JUAN, River, United States

săn wän, river, c.400 mi (640 km) long, rising in the San Juan Mts., SW Colo., and flowing generally W through N.Mex. and Utah to Lake Powell on the Colorado River. Navajo Dam, part of the upper Colorado River storage project, is on the river, which is unnavigable. Its chief tributaries are the Animas, Los Pinos, La Plata, Piedra, and Mancos rivers. The San Juan is used for irrigation; vegetables, fruits, and grains are grown in the river valley in northwestern N.Mex.

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The American Alps: The San Juan Mountains of Southwest Colorado
Book by Donald L. Baars; University of New Mexico Press, 1992
Subjects: Geology--San Juan Mountains (Colo. And N.M.), Geology--San Juan Mountains (Colo. And N.M.)--Guidebooks, San Juan Mountains (Colo. And N.M.)--Description And Travel
...geologic history of the San Juan Mountains goes back more...occurs in the eastern United States, where it was subdivided...Canada and the northern United States. It is not surprising...glaciers extended. The San Juan Mountains are excellent...
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The Urban Ambience: A Study of San Juan, Puerto Rico
Book by Theodore Caplow, Sheldon Stryker, Samuel E. Wallace; Bedminster Press, 1964
Subjects: Neighborhood--Case Studies, Puerto Rico--Social Conditions--Case Studies, San Juan (P.R.)--Social Conditions
...10.7 San Juan Urban Area...Source: United States Bureau of...Suburbs 31 San Juan Urban Area 21 Source: United States Bureau of...4175 San Juan Urban Area...Source: United States Bureau of...
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Women and Urban Change in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1820-1868
Book by Félix Matos Rodríguez; University Press of Florida, 1999
Subjects: City And Town Life--Puerto Rico--San Juan--History, Women--Puerto Rico--San Juan--Economic Conditions, Women--Puerto Rico--San Juan--History, Working Class Women--Puerto Rico--San Juan--Social Conditions
...Change in San Juan, Puerto Rico...Printed in the United States of America...establishments in San Juan began at midcentury...parts of the United States and Latin...Thomas, the United States, and France...nineteenth-century San Juan due to the...
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From Exile to Diaspora: Versions of the Filipino Experience in the United States
Book by E. San Juan Jr.; Westview Press, 1998
Subjects: American Literature--Filipino American Authors, Filipino Americans--Cultural Assimilation, Filipino Americans--Ethnic Identity
...Experience in the United States E. San Juan Jr. WestviewPress...experience in the United States / E. San Juan, Jr. p. cm. Includes...Formation in the United States from the 1960s to the 1980s see San Juan 1989b . Lacking...
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St. John of the Cross (San Juan de la Cruz): Alchemist of the Soul : His Life, His Poetry (Bilingual), His Prose
Book by Antonio T. De Nicolás, John of the Cross; Paragon House, 1989
Subjects: Catholic Church--Doctrines, Mysticism--Early Works To 1800
...course, religion. In the writings of San Juan de la Cruz this period of his training...practice of religion described by San Juan de la Cruz, regardless of how highly...would a Protestant divine say of San Juan de la Cruz when in verse and in prose...
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journal articles on: San Juan River United States  - 295 results

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Frankenstein and Pitbull? Transmogrifying the Endangered Species Act and "Fixing" the San Juan-Chama Project after Rio Grande Silvery Minnow V. Keys
Journal article by Ethan R. Hasenstein; Environmental Law, Vol. 34, 2004
Subjects: Endangered Species Act of 1973, Endangered species--Laws, regulations and rules, Minnows--Laws, regulations and rules, Rio Grande Silvery Minnow v. Keys--333 F.3d 1109 (10th Cir. 2003), Water rights--Laws, regulations and rules
...MOVE THE RIVER: BIODIVERSITY...C. The San Juan-Chama Project...Tribe v. United States...headwaters of the San Juan River to the headwaters...Tribe v. United States (Jicarilla...neither the San Juan-Chama Project...Colorado River Compacts...California v. United States, once water...
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Peaks of Identity in Colorado's San Juan Mountains
Journal article by Kevin S. Blake; Journal of Cultural Geography, Vol. 18, 1999
Subjects: Emblems--Social aspects, Geography--Social aspects, Insignia--Social aspects, Landscape--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Mountains--Psychological aspects, Symbolism--Environmental aspects
...mountain range in the contiguous United States contains as much land over 10,000...higher than 14,000 feet, are in the San Juan range (Borneman and Lampert 1998...major tributaries of the Colorado River system: the Lake Fork of the Gunnison...
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Endangered Economies
Journal article by James V. Hansen; Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy, Vol. 16, 2001
Subjects: Colorado River--Plants and animals, Endangered Species Act of 1973, Rare fishes--Environmental aspects, San Juan River--Plants and animals, Water use--Environmental aspects
...River and San Juan River basins in...all four states. The House...into by the United States regarding...Colorado and San Juan recovery...Upper Basin states and $17 million...Colorado River basin. In...Upper Basin states. The federal...Colorado River and San Juan River basins...
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What a Tangled Web!: Masculinity, Abjection, and the Foundations of Puerto Rican Literature in the United States
Journal article by Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé; Differences, Vol. 8, 1996
Subjects: Feminism, Feminist Criticism, Women, Women--United States
...Puerto Ricans to the United States after World War...1952 . Flores, Juan. Divided Borders...Puerto Rico . San Juan: Universidad...buena tinta . San Juan: Instituto de Cultura...cuerpo de camisa . San Juan: Ediciones Lugar...
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Treaties' End: The Past, Present, and Future of International Lawmaking in the United States
Journal article by Oona A. Hathaway; Yale Law Journal, Vol. 117, 2008
Subjects: Commercial treaties--Laws, regulations and rules, Constitutional conventions--Laws, regulations and rules, Trade agreements--Laws, regulations and rules, Treaties--Laws, regulations and rules, Treaties--Ratification, Treaty ratification--Laws, regulations and rules
...INTERNATIONAL LAWMAKING IN THE UNITED STATES...Interests: The Mississippi River and the...the mouth of the Mississippi River, had offered the United States a deal: it would give the...
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From San Juan Hill to Chengue
Magazine article by Alexander Cockburn; The Nation, Vol. 272, February 12, 2001
Subjects: Clinton, Bill--Military policy, Colombia--Military aspects, Powell, Colin--Military policy, Secretaries of state--Military policy
...right after the charge up San Juan Hill. Exit Bill, enter the...rehab programs here in the United States. The Clinton Administration...the purlieus of the Saw Mill River Parkway. If shes called Gennifer...we do year after year with San Juan Hill.
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THE LONG REACH OF TINY BIRDS - Hummingbirds Are Inspiring New Cross- Border Conservation Efforts between Mexico and the United States
Magazine article by Tim Vanderpool; National Wildlife, October 2002
Subjects: Birds, Protection of--International aspects, Hummingbirds
...conservationists Juan Caicedo and Jennie...40 miles of the San Pedro River on this side...Mexico and the United States. Recognizing that...Mexico and the United States, often along verdant...pathways such as the San Pedro River (above, left...
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All They Need Is Wolves: Wilderness Abounds in the Rugged San Juans, but What's Missing Is the Call of the Wild
Magazine article by Gregory Mcnamee; Sierra, Vol. 88, May-June 2003
Subjects: Mountaineering--Personal narratives, San Juan Mountains--Discovery, exploration, etc.
...Colorado s San Juan Mountains...land in the United States. "Ive lived...that dot the San Juans. On...badgers and river otters, were...headwaters of the San Juan River. It is to...fuel in the United States. Developments...along the San Juan, Animas...San Juan River below Wolf...
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The Spanish Harp in Colonial San Antonio
Magazine article by Samuel Milligan; American Harp Journal, Summer 2009
Subjects: Church music--History, Harp music--History, Music history, Music in churches--History, Music--Historiography, San Antonio, Texas--History
...later become the southwestern United States. (72) I give San Antonio pride of place provisionally...rights and water rights over the San Antonio River, among other things. See Habig...1959, p. 597. (45.) Such as San Juan Ixcoi, San Matteo Ixtatlan and...
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Los Angeles Dodgers vs. San Francisco Giants, April 1958
Magazine article by Kevin Nelson; California History, Vol. 82, Winter 2005
Subjects: Baseball (Professional)--1958 AD, Baseball (Professional)--Competitions, Baseball (Professional)--History, Los Angeles Dodgers--Competitions, Los Angeles Dodgers--History, Professional baseball--1958 AD, Professional baseball--Competitions, Professional baseball--History, San Francisco Giants--Competitions, San Francisco Giants--History
...Supreme Court of the United States. By May the last...Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants...Famers, pitchers Juan Marichal and Gaylord...the Series, the United States Supreme Court dismissed...such teams as the San Francisco Seals...
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'Big City That's a Small Town' San Antonio and Its Festivals Embrace All Cultures
Newspaper article by Kathy M. Newbern, J.S. Fletcher; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), November 19, 2006
Subjects: Convention bureaus
...Patricks Day River Parade at River Walk plus another solemn...openings of both SeaWorld San Antonio, the worlds largest...water crops; Mission San Juan Capistrano, which was...guests, announcing home states or countries and even...SanAntonioVisit.com Getting there: United and American airlines...
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Coaxed to the Coast
Newspaper article by Jacquie Kubin; The Washington Times, March 11, 2000
Subjects: San Diego, California
...authentic gondola business here in the United States, I went to Venice to try to order...peninsula, which juts from Coronado into San Diego Bay, the resort is almost completely...Tropics, Sun Bear Forest and Tiger River. Great white bears live in the...
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Teddy Is Still Riding High
Newspaper article by Robert Buckman; The Washington Times, June 30, 1998
Subjects: Roosevelt, Theodore
...his famous 1914-15 expedition up Brazils River of Doubt. He emphasized that the ultimate legacy of San Juan Hill is how Roosevelt eventually made the United States a world power - including the building of...
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Social Climbing; Dog Spas, Elk Dinners and Skiing with A-List Stars - Telluride Is Strictly for Those in the Know. Katharine Pooley, Who Owns a Luxury Lodge, Shares the Slopes with Tom Cruise, Sylvester Stallone and Oprah Winfrey Rich City
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), March 16, 2005
...the majestic 14,000ft peaks of the San Juan Mountains. Located on the far western...team do their training - and the United States best iceclimbing park, in Ouray. In the summer we ride, fish, river raft, go rock climbing, mountain...
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A Heady Past, Vital Present: LONG ISLAND
Newspaper article by Richard Wightman; The Washington Times, September 8, 2001
Subjects: Long Island
...Association as the oldest single-family restaurant in the United States. As we arrived on a busy Saturday, a tough-looking...returned with the Rough Riders he had led to victory at San Juan Hill - clearing the way for his election as president...
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San Juan , River, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SAN JUAN , river, United States san wan, river, c.400 mi (640 km) long, rising in the San Juan Mts., SW Colo., and...and Mancos rivers. The San Juan is used for irrigation...grains are grown in the river valley in northwestern...
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Rio Grande , River, United States and Mexico
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...river, United States and Mexico...gran de, river, c.1,885...Colo. in the San Juan Mts. and...regulation of the river flow. Elephant...between the United States and Mexico...between the United States and Mexico...section of the river on the American...
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Colorado , River, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...1 Great river of the SW United States, 1,450 mi...Green , San Juan , and Little...the Colorado River storage project...between the United States and Mexico...bordering states (it supplies...1922 Colorado River Compact that...
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Washington , State, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...northeast. After receiving the Spokane River from the east, it turns westward...is one of the wettest areas in the United States, receiving up to 150 in. (381 cm...more than 300 islands, including the San Juan Archipelago and Whidbey Island; it...
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Colorado , State, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...W central United States, one of the...Arkansas River, 3,350 ft...Mts., and San Juan Mts. on the...Spain (see San Ildefonso...of ). The United States bought the...Arkansas River and E of...until the United States acquired...established in the San Luis valley...
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