Aug 1, 2009 Americas Rivers from Above featured” /> All images
courtesy of Roy Tennant. Rivers are amazing natural phenomena –
they carry us on their glittering backs if not physically at
least to far away shores in our dreams. Seen from above, one can
truly see the amazing patterns, often snakelike, that these
untamed phenomena weave over the face of the Earth. At 2,330 km
(1,450 miles), the Colorado River is the longest of the rivers
portrayed here. It originates high in the Rocky Mountains, just
west of the Continental Divide and ends in the Gulf of
California. Like a picture right out of a topographical atlas –
the Colorado River: The 1,670-km-long (1,040 miles) Snake River
originates in Yellowstone National Park from where it flows
through scenic mountain ranges, plains and canyons in other
parts of Wyoming and through Idaho, Oregon and Washington. It is
the largest tributary of the Columbia River, making it the 12th
largest in the United States. As if the name was not obvious, it
is said to have develop