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The Green River flows 730 miles (1,170 km) from its headwaters in the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming, primarily south to its confluence with the Colorado River in Canyonlands National Park. Near the town of Green River, Wyoming, the river continues south through four major canyons - including Red Canyon and Flaming Gorge - then makes a great bend to the east, and then west and south past the Uinta Mountains. The largest and most important tributary of the Colorado River, the Green's watershed is actually larger than that of the Colorado upstream of their confluence.
Specifically about 10 miles (16 km) west of the present-day town of Dutch John, the Green River enters a steep and narrow gorge that winds eastward in several trapped meanders. Just downstream of the confluence with Cart Creek, where Cart Creek Bridge now stands, the Green turns south and enters a section where the canyons become extremely narrow, only 1,000 to 1,500 feet (300 to 460 m) wide. The Flaming Gorge Dam was built in this canyon in 1964.
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