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Robinson's Landing, the Glossary

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Robinson's Landing was a location in Baja California, Mexico.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 13 relations: Baja California, Colorado River, Colorado River Delta, David C. Robinson (steamboat captain), Fort Yuma, Gulf of California, Joseph Christmas Ives, Mexico, Montague Island (Baja California), Port Famine, Sonora, Port Isabel, Sonora, Steamboats of the Colorado River, Tidal bore.

  2. 1852 establishments in Mexico
  3. Communities in the Lower Colorado River Valley
  4. Port cities and towns on the Mexican Pacific coast
  5. River ports
  6. Steamboat transport on the Colorado River

Baja California

Baja California ('Lower California'), officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California (Free and Sovereign State of Baja California), is a state in Mexico.

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Colorado River

The Colorado River (Río Colorado) is one of the principal rivers (along with the Rio Grande) in the Southwestern United States and in northern Mexico.

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Colorado River Delta

The Colorado River Delta is the region where the Colorado River flows into the Gulf of California (also known as the Sea of Cortez) in eastern Mexicali Municipality in the north of the state of Baja California in northwesternmost Mexico.

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David C. Robinson (steamboat captain)

David C. Robinson (c. 1833 – 1874), was a steamboat captain on the Colorado River from 1857 to 1873. Robinson's Landing and David C. Robinson (steamboat captain) are steamboat transport on the Colorado River.

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Fort Yuma

Fort Yuma was a fort in California located in Imperial County, across the Colorado River from Yuma, Arizona.

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Gulf of California

The Gulf of California (Golfo de California), also known as the Sea of Cortés (Mar de Cortés) or Sea of Cortez, or less commonly as the Vermilion Sea (Mar Vermejo), is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean that separates the Baja California peninsula from the Mexican mainland.

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Joseph Christmas Ives

Joseph Christmas Ives (25 December 1829 – 12 November 1868) was an American soldier, botanist, and an explorer of the Colorado River in 1858.

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Mexico

Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.

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Montague Island (Baja California)

Montague Island, known in Spanish as Isla Montague, is an island at the mouth of the Colorado River in the municipality of Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico, and is part of the Colorado River Delta and part of a broader region called the Salton Trough. Robinson's Landing and Montague Island (Baja California) are steamboat transport on the Colorado River.

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Port Famine, Sonora

Port Famine was a steamboat landing and woodyard, supplying wood to the steamboats on the lower Colorado River in Sonora, Mexico, from the 1854 to the late 1870s. Robinson's Landing and Port Famine, Sonora are Communities in the Lower Colorado River Valley, river ports and steamboat transport on the Colorado River.

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Port Isabel, Sonora

Port Isabel was a seaport established on Port Isabel Slough in 1865 during the American Civil War in Sonora, Mexico in the mouth of the Colorado River on the Gulf of California. Robinson's Landing and Port Isabel, Sonora are Communities in the Lower Colorado River Valley, port cities and towns on the Mexican Pacific coast, river ports and steamboat transport on the Colorado River.

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Steamboats of the Colorado River

Steamboats on the Colorado River operated from the river mouth at the Colorado River Delta on the Gulf of California in Mexico, up to the Virgin River on the Lower Colorado River Valley in the Southwestern United States from 1852 until 1909, when the construction of the Laguna Dam was completed. Robinson's Landing and Steamboats of the Colorado River are steamboat transport on the Colorado River.

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Tidal bore

A tidal bore, often simply given as bore in context, is a tidal phenomenon in which the leading edge of the incoming tide forms a wave (or waves) of water that travels up a river or narrow bay, reversing the direction of the river or bay's current.

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See also

1852 establishments in Mexico

Communities in the Lower Colorado River Valley

Port cities and towns on the Mexican Pacific coast

River ports

Steamboat transport on the Colorado River

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson's_Landing