The Dolores River begins excessive among the many San Miguel and Rico ranges, tumbling recklessly previous long-defunct hardrock mines and flowing south-southwesterly to Dolores, Colorado. However irrigation and aridification have lowered it to a tepid trickle, and the banks have been totally grazed, mined, and in any other case abused for effectively over a century. Thus, the decrease 160-mile stretch has come to earn the melancholy moniker the Spanish friars gave it within the 1700s: El Rio de Nuestra Señora de Dolores, the River of Our Woman of Sorrows.
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