The Sacramento Wash (California) is the drainage southward, then east from the

Lanfair Valley Lanfair Valley is located in the Mojave Desert in southeastern California near the Nevada state line. The valley is bounded on the north by the New York Mountains and Castle Mountains (California), Castle Mountains, on the east by the Piute Range, ...

of extreme eastern

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. The drainage combines with the

Piute Wash The Piute Wash of extreme southeastern Nevada and northeast San Bernardino County, California, San Bernardino County California is the south-flowing drainage of the Piute Valley. The wash and valley are located northwest of Needles, California. T ...

-(mostly of

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) at the south terminus of the

Dead Mountains The Dead Mountains are a mountain range in the southeastern Mojave Desert, in San Bernardino County, California. The range borders the tri-state intersection of Nevada, Arizona and California, and the Mohave Valley, with the Fort Mojave Indian ...

, and immediately enters the

Colorado River The Colorado River () is one of the principal rivers (along with the Rio Grande) in the Southwestern United States and in northern Mexico. The river, the List of longest rivers of the United States (by main stem), 5th longest in the United St ...

, just north of

Needles, California Needles is a city in San Bernardino County, in the Mojave Desert region of Southern California. Situated on the western banks of the Colorado River, Needles is located near the California border with Arizona and Nevada. The city is accessible v ...

. Another

Sacramento Wash The Sacramento Wash is a major drainage of northwest Arizona in Mohave County. The wash is east of the Black Canyon of the Colorado and drains into the south-flowing Colorado River 45 mi south of Lake Mohave, and 90 mi south of Hoover ...

occurs across the Colorado, as an eastern drainage from northwest

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, also at Needles, CA. The Lanfair Valley and Sacramento Wash are at the eastern perimeter region of the

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Geography

The Sacramento Wash (California) is part of a 2-valley south-trending drainage system, shaped like a U;

is the eastern part of the drainage; the Sacaramento Wash is the western. The Sacramento Wash turns eastward, combines with other bajada drainages from the west and south, and merges with the Piute Wash, to rapidly descend down from the foothills of the Dead Mountains to the western bank of the Colorado River. The approximate center of the Sacramento Wash drainage is the center of

, the

Lanfair Buttes Lanfair Buttes, also known as Eagle Mountain, Indian Hill, Eagle Hill, and Graveyard Hills is a summit in the Mojave National Preserve in the Mojave Desert in San Bernardino County, California. The Lanfair Buttes lie 3 miles (4.8 km) east-sout ...

References

Lanfair Buttes, coordinates, approx. center of valley, topozone.com

External links

Lanfair Buttes, Lanfair Valley, approximate north-south center of valley drainage, topozone.com
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Geography

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