USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Black Canyon of the Colorado is the canyon on the Colorado River where Hoover Dam was built. The canyon is located on the Colorado River at the state line between Nevada and Arizona.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hoover left office, the Interior Department, for reasons that need not be referred to in detail here, avoided the use of the name “Hoover Dam” where possible, and used the names"Boulder Canyon Dam” or “Boulder Dam."

Detailed explanation-3: -The breathtaking Black Canyon Water Trail, located only about 45 minutes from Las Vegas, flows along the flat, green Lower Colorado River through Lake Mead National Recreation Area between famous Hoover Dam and Eldorado Canyon.

Detailed explanation-4: -Overview. Hoover Dam and Lake Mead, spanning the Arizona-Nevada state line, are located in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River about 35 miles southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada. It is a concrete thick-arch structure, 726.4 feet high and 1, 244 feet long.

Detailed explanation-5: -Glen Canyon Dam is the key water storage unit of the Colorado River Storage Project, one of the most complex and extensive river resource developments in the world. Without it, development of the Upper Colorado River Basin states’ portion of the Colorado River would not have been possible.