Kanab Creek
| Kanab Creek | ||
 Kanab Creek in Kanab Canyon |
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| location | Colorado Plateau , southwestern USA | |
| River system | Colorado River | |
| Drain over | Colorado River → Gulf of California | |
| source |
Kane County , Utah 37 ° 29 ′ 31 ″ N , 112 ° 22 ′ 50 ″ W. |
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| muzzle | in Grand Canyon National Park in the Colorado River Coordinates: 36 ° 23 ′ 32 " N , 112 ° 37 ′ 48" W 36 ° 23 ′ 32 " N , 112 ° 37 ′ 48" W
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| length | 145 km | |
The Kanab Creek is a 145 km long, right-hand tributary of the Colorado River on the Colorado Plateau in the southwestern United States . It rises in Kane County , Utah south of the watershed to the Great Basin . He is consistently heading south, near Kanab in Utah and into Arizona . From here it forms the border between Mohave County and Coconino County and passes Fredonia . It then washes out a side canyon of the Grand Canyon and flows into the Colorado River in Grand Canyon National Park .
The source and course in Utah are just west of the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument , in Arizona the Kanab Creek flows through the Kaibab Paiute Indian Reservation of the Paiute Indians and the Kanab Creek Wilderness , a nature reserve of the type of a Wilderness Area , established in 1984 . the strictest class of wildlife sanctuary in the United States.
The valley of Kanab Creek was sparsely populated by the early Indian cultures of the Basketmaker and Anasazi , ruins of their settlements and artifacts are found along the entire course.
