| 词条 | Whitewater Draw |
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Whitewater Draw, originally Rio de Agua Prieta, [Spanish: river of dark water], is a tributary stream of the Rio de Agua Prieta in Cochise County, Arizona.[1] It was called Blackwater Creek by Philip St. George Cooke when his command, the Mormon Battalion, camped at a spring on its course on December 5, 1846.[2]{{rp|142}} Whitewater Draw has its source at an elevation of 8,520 feet at {{Coord|31|50|16|N|109|17|49|W|display=inline}} in Rucker Canyon in the Chiricahua Mountains in the Coronado National Forest and flows generally westward, skirting the north end of the Swisshelm Mountains, then southwest and south through Sulphur Springs Valley into Mexico at Douglas, Arizona and Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico. It flows southward as Rio de Agua Prieta then southeast to join the Rio de San Bernardino at an elevation of 3,084 feet / 940 meters, at La Junta de los Rios about 24.5 miles southeast of Douglas, Arizona.The Bavispe River flows south by southwest to the Yaqui River and eventually to the Gulf of California at Ciudad Obregon, Sonora[1] References1. ^1 {{GNIS|13715|Whitewater Draw}} {{Coord|31|04|30|N|109|18|15|W|display=title}}{{Rivers and streams of Arizona}}2. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=4ws1dsUGLZ0C&output=text&source=gbs_navlinks_s Philip St. George Cooke, The Conquest of New Mexico and California, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1878 pp.91–109, 125–196] 4 : Rivers of Cochise County, Arizona|Rivers of Sonora|International rivers of North America|Cooke's Wagon Road |
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