I went to the Imperial Valley to see where the Colorado River ends up.

I've always wanted to see the end of the Colorado River. Instead of heading to the Sea of Cortez, I'm in Imperial Valley, CA. This is literally where the Colorado River ends. The final American recipients of Colorado River's waters are the alfalfa fields that lay below sea level in a valley where temperatures often top 110F. Alfalfa is grown year-round, and many billions of pounds of it are exported.
The last major diversion of the Colorado river takes place at the Morelos dam, between Sonora, Mexico and Arizona. In the late 1800's a canal was dug out using the course of the existing Alamo River. The Alamo river was an ordinary dry river bed that would occasionally receive the Colorado River's waters during very high floods. In 1905 a flood breached a levy near the AZ/CA/Mexico border and caused the Alamo River to take on the Colorado River's waters, which flowed for many months into the dry basin, which made the Salton Sea. The Alamo river is still flowing to this day.
The next canal was the All American Canal, which took its namesake using a more challenging route that follows the border entirely on the US to the imperial valley.
With lake mead drying up, it's interesting to see all the water is going through the Hoover dam and to the imperial valley.
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