Gila River

proper noun

A tributary of the Colorado River in New Mexico and Arizona, United States.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. A tributary of the Colorado River in New Mexico and Arizona, United States.

    Here in New Mexico the Gila River has its source.

    1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 20
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    Farther to the southward, the rivers which are affluent to the Colorado, such as the Rio Virgen, and Gila river, near their mouths, are impregnated with salt by the cliffs of rock salt between which they pass.

    1845, J[ohn] C[harles] Frémont, Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-’44, Washington: Gales and Seaton, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 158
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APA

Gila River. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Gila%20River

MLA

“Gila River.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Gila%20River. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Gila River,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Gila%20River.

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