Florida River

{{Short description|Tributary of the Animas River in La Plata County, Colorado, United States}} {{Infobox river | name = Florida River<ref name=GNIS>{{cite gnis|id= 183961|name=Florida River|accessdate= 2011-01-31}}</ref> | image = File:Florida River near Durango airport.jpg | image_alt = Stream with cows and a barn behind it | image_caption = Near Durango–La Plata County Airport | map = | map_alt = | map_caption = | source1_location = Lillie Lake | source1_coordinates= {{coord|37|34|43|N|107|35|36|W}} | mouth_location = Confluence with Animas | mouth_coordinates = {{coord|37|02|56|N|107|52|22|W|display=inline,title}} | progression = Animas—San Juan—Colorado | length = | source1_elevation = | mouth_elevation = {{convert|5994|ft|m|abbr=on}} | discharge1_avg = | basin_size = | river_system = | tributaries_left = | tributaries_right = }}

'''Florida River''' is a {{convert|61.7|mi|km|adj=mid|-long}}<ref name=NHD>U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. [http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/ The National Map] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120329155652/http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/ |date=2012-03-29 }}, accessed March 21, 2011</ref> tributary of the Animas River in La Plata County, Colorado.

The river's source is Lillie Lake in the Weminuche Wilderness. After being impounded by the Lemon Dam to form Lemon Reservoir about fifteen miles northeast of Durango, it joins the Animas River south of Durango on the Southern Ute Indian Reservation near the New Mexico state line.

Florida is a name derived from Spanish meaning "little flower".<ref>{{cite book|last=Dawson|first=John Frank|title=Place names in Colorado: why 700 communities were so named, 150 of Spanish or Indian origin|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015051116740;view=1up;seq=27|publisher=The J. Frank Dawson Publishing Co.|location=Denver, CO|page=21}}</ref>

[[File:Florida River and Williams-Ignacio Plant aerial.jpg|thumb|500px|center|Florida River and Williams–Ignacio Plant (a petroleum and gas processing facility) near Durango, aerial view on takeoff from Durango–La Plata County Airport]]

==See also== *List of rivers of Colorado

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Category:Rivers of Colorado Category:Rivers of La Plata County, Colorado Category:Tributaries of the Colorado River in Colorado