Tonto Basin
The Tonto Basin, also known as Pleasant Valley,[1] covers the main drainage basin of Tonto Creek and its tributaries in central Arizona, at the southwest of the Mogollon Rim, the higher elevation transition zone across central and eastern Arizona. Although the word tonto means silly or foolish in Spanish, this place name is derived from the Apache word, Koun’nde, which means wild, rough people and refers to the indigenous Dilzhe’e Tonto Apache.[2]
Tonto Basin is mostly north-south trending and outflows into the Salt River at the extensive canyon reservoir called Theodore Roosevelt Lake.
water divide northeast of the Mazatzals, with State route 87 which proceeds to Payson and further to Kohls Ranch and Christopher Creek at the basin headwaters at the foot of the Mogollon Rim
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Regional geography
The Tonto Basin is Y-shaped at its headwaters. East are the
water divide
at the west of the Y-shape, a much shorter drainage basin, dwarfing the major upper Tonto Creek drainage.
See also
References
- ^ "Arizona's Pleasant Valley Feud". www.jcs-group.com.
- ^ White Mountain Apache Tribe, 1998. Western Apache-English Dictionary: A Community-Generated Bilingual Dictionary. Tempe, Arizona, Arizona State University, Bilingual Review Press, 485 p.
External links
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