Virgin River

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proper noun

A tributary of the Colorado River in Utah, Nevada and Arizona, United States.
Of the parks, Zion is carved in the southwestern flank of the Markágunt by one fork of the Virgin River, and Zion National Monument is carved by the other.
1954, Wallace Stegner, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West, Houghton Mifflin, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 163
Synonyms: Rio Virgen

proper nounA tributary of the Colorado River in Utah, Nevada and Arizona, United States.

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