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Piute Wash

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The Piute Valley and Wash are north–south trending as are the mountains bordering west and east; the wash's abrupt traverse east to its outfall is about an 8-mile (13 km) stretch.
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in the northwest. The Sacramento Wash then turns east to join the Piute Wash. In the southwest a
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Southern portions of the wash receive some north flowing drainages from the north of the
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The Piute Wash watershed and Piute Valley drain the eastern flank of the north-south
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Arizona Road & Recreation Atlas, Needles, CA, elev. 488, pp. 32–33.
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For the valley, range, and mountains in the same region, see
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also descends steeply in this stretch down to Needles.
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Tributaries of the Lower Colorado River in California
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draining southwestwards into San Bernardino County.
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Index

Piute Valley
Piute Range
Piute Mountains

Colorado River
Dead Mountains
Piute Wash is located in California
Nevada
California
United States
Nevada
California
Mojave Desert
Searchlight, NV
Needles, CA
Mohave Valley, AZ
Cal-Nev-Ari, NV
Nevada
San Bernardino County
Piute Valley
Needles, California
Piute Range
Newberry Mountains
Dead Mountains
Colorado River
California
I-40
Sacramento Mountains
Piute Range
Sacramento Wash

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