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The '''Alamo River''' ({{lang-es|Río Álamo}}) flows west and north from the [[Mexicali Municipality|Mexicali Valley]] ([[Baja California]]) across the [[
The [[New River (Mexico–United States)|New River]], Alamo River, and the Salton Sea of the 21st century started in autumn 1904, when the [[Colorado River]], swollen by seasonal rainfall and snow-melt, flowed through a series of three human-engineered openings in the recently constructed levee bank of the [[Alamo Canal]].<ref name="tait">{{cite book|title=Irrigation in Imperial Valley, California: its problems and possibilities|year=1908|publisher=Washington Government Printing Office|isbn=978-1-113-10178-5|url=https://archive.org/details/irrigationinimp00taitgoog|quote=pilot knob imperial canal intake.|author=Clarence Everett Tait|access-date=26 August 2010|pages=[https://archive.org/details/irrigationinimp00taitgoog/page/n19 13], 51}}</ref> The resulting flood poured down the canal and [[Dike breach|breached]] an Imperial Valley dike. The sudden influx of water and the lack of any drainage from the basin resulted in the formation of the Salton Sea; the rivers had re-created a great inland sea in an area that it had frequently inundated before, the [[Salton Sink]].
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