Uncompahgre River

The formed from the Uncompahgre River Uncompahgre Gorge in autumn

The Uncompahgre River is a 121 km long tributary of the Gunnison River in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Colorado. He springs from Lake Como ( 3723 m), a small mountain lake in the Uncompahgre National Forest in the north of San Juan County. It flows northwest through the mountain villages Ouray, Ridgway, Montrose, Olathe and ends in Confluence Park in Delta in the Gunnison.

The river formed in the years the two gorges Poughkeepsie Gulch and Uncompahgre Gorge. Riverside there are two dams: a small dam in the Uncompahgre Gulch and another dam called Ridgway Dam, which dams the Ridgway Reservoir. The name comes from the Ute people and means something like " dirty water " or " red water spring ".