Owens River

The Owens River is a river in southeastern California in the United States, approximately 183 miles (295 km) long.It drains into and through the Owens Valley, an arid basin between the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada and the western faces of the Inyo and White Mountains. The river terminates at Owens Lake, but its flow is greatly diminished by diversion into the Los Angeles Aqueduct since 1913.

 

The river flows through two major valleys of the extreme southwestern Great Basin – the Long Valley and Owens Valley.The north to south drainage basin is in portions of Mono and Inyo Counties and terminates in the now-dry Owens Lake.To the northwest of the valley is the Long Valley Caldera which is only a fraction of the size of the Owens Valley.