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The Brazos River( ), called the ''Rio de los Brazos de Dios'' by early Spanish explorers (translated as "The River of the Arms of God") and the 11th longest river in the United States at from its headwater source at the head of Blackwater Draw, Curry County, New Mexico to its mouth at the Gulf of Mexico with a drainage basin. ==Geography== The Brazos proper begins at the confluence of the Salt Fork and Double Mountain Fork, two tributaries of the Upper Brazos that rise on the high plains of the Llano Estacado, flowing through the center of Texas. Another major tributary of the Upper Brazos is the Clear Fork Brazos River, which passes by Abilene and joins the main river near Graham. Important tributaries of the Lower Brazos include the Bosque River, the Little River, Yegua Creek, Nolan River, the Leon River, the San Gabriel River, the Lampasas River and the Navasota River. Initially running east towards Dallas-Fort Worth, the Brazos turns south, passing through Waco and the Baylor University campus, further south to near Calvert, Texas then past Bryan and College Station, then through Richmond, Texas in Fort Bend County, and into the Gulf of Mexico in the marshes just south of Freeport.〔 The main stem of the Brazos is dammed in three places, all north of Waco, forming Possum Kingdom Lake, Lake Granbury, and Lake Whitney. Of these three, Granbury was the last to be completed, in 1969. When its construction was proposed in the mid-1950s, John Graves wrote the book, ''Goodbye to a River''. A small municipal dam (Lake Brazos Dam) is near the downstream city limit of Waco at the end of the Baylor campus; it raises the level of the river through the city to form a town lake. This impoundment of the Brazos through Waco is locally called Lake Waco. A total of nineteen major reservoirs are located along the Brazos. File:Brazos Double Mtn Fork 2009.jpg|North Fork Double Mountain Fork Brazos River at the eastern edge of the Llano Estacado. File:Salt Fork Brazos River FM651 Texas.jpg|An often dry Salt Fork Brazos River northeast of Post, Texas. File:Brazos River Double Mountain Fork Rotan Texas 2009.jpg|Double Mountain Fork Brazos River viewed from the Texas State Highway 70 bridge, north of Rotan, Texas. File:Rath City Texas Brazos Bridge 2009.jpg|Collapsed bridge structure, Double Mountain Fork Brazos River at the site of former Rath City, Texas. File:Brazos River Parker County Texas.jpg|The Brazos in north Central Texas midway between Possum Kingdom and Lake Granbury. File:Brazos River west of Bryan, TX IMG_0551.JPG|The Brazos in southeast Central Texas west of Bryan, Texas. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brazos River」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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