Sevier River
| Sevier River | ||
 The Sevier River in Leamington, Millard County |
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| Data | ||
| Water code | US : 1445451 | |
| location | Utah (USA) | |
| River system | Sevier River | |
| source | in Kane County, 37 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ N , 112 ° 30 ′ 2 ″ W. |
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| muzzle |
Sevier Lake Coordinates: 39 ° 2 '57 " N , 113 ° 7' 53" W 39 ° 2 '57 " N , 113 ° 7' 53" W. |
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| Mouth height |
1379 m
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| length | 450 km | |
| Catchment area | 14,245 km² | |
| Left tributaries | Beaver River | |
 Course of the Sevier River |
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The Sevier River is a river in the southwestern part of Utah . It is approximately 450 km (280 mi) long and flows through an area of 14,245 km 2 (5,500 mi 2 ). The direction of flow is in the shape of a large horseshoe.
description
The endorheic river is located in the Great Basin , a basin without drainage and therefore has no mouth, but evaporates in the desert climate. It rises in northwestern Kane County , flows along the western side of the Paunsaugunt Plateau and further north into Garfield County past the places Hatch and Panguitch . On the border between Garfield County and Piute County, the Sevier River flows through a gorge, the Circleville Canyon (about eight kilometers or five miles long). It flows through Piute County to Marysvale , on through Sevier Canyon and northeast past Richfield and Salina . About 32 kilometers (20 miles) southwest of Nephi , Juab County , the river changes direction to the west. It flows at the northern end of the Canyon Montains into the Sevier Desert , past Delta in Millard County into Sevier Lake , which is in central Millard County on the western side of the Cricket Montains, which has dried out for much of the year . This has no drain, the water evaporates.
In 1776, the Dominguez Escalante expedition was the first white man to explore the region, which is sparsely populated by Ute Indians. They noticed that the Ute called the Sevier by the same name as the Green River further east. Your cartographer Bernardo Miera y Pacheco therefore erroneously entered the Green River in a south-westerly instead of a south-westerly direction on his map and thus created the first mention of the legendary Buenaventura River , which erroneously ran from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific coast in countless maps until well into the 19th century was entered. It was not until 1844 that John Charles Frémont realized on a surveying expedition that there could be no river with the assumed course.