The Sacramento Valley of northwestern

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is a north–south trending valley west and southwest of Kingman in

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. The valley lies just east of the southern section of the Black Mountains.

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traverses the valley north–south. The Sacramento Wash is the first southerly drainage south of the ''Havasu-Mohave Lakes Watershed'' entering the east bank of the south-flowing

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. The ''Sacramento Wash Watershed'' flows south-then-westerly into the Colorado; Kingman lies in the northeast of the '' Sacramento Wash Watershed'' on the

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with the ''Hualapai Wash Watershed'' lying to the east, that flows north into the Colorado River as it enters

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References

External links

Sacramento Wash Watershed Map
Tributary valleys of the Lower Colorado River Valley Valleys of Arizona Rivers of Mohave County, Arizona Washes of Arizona {{MohaveCountyAZ-geo-stub