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Colorado River Lake Austin on the Colorado River, Texas, U.S.

Colorado River

river, Texas, United States
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Colorado River, river rising in western Texas, U.S., on the Llano Estacado (ā€œStaked Plainā€) in Dawson county, northeast of Lamesa. It flows generally southeastward past Colorado City, through rolling prairie and rugged hill and canyon country. By means of the Highland Lakes, six reservoirsā€”Buchanan, Inks, Lyndon B. Johnson, Marble Falls, Travis, and Austinā€”impounded by as many dams, the river flows past Austin and across the Coastal Plain to enter Matagorda Bay (an inlet of the...

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