Chinle Valley
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| Chinle Valley | |
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 Chinle Valley, between Black Mesa west, and the mountain ranges to the east & southeast | |
  Chinle Valley Chinle Valley of Arizona and Utah | |
| Length | 65 mi (105 km) N-S |
| Geography | |
| Country | United States |
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| Region | Colorado Plateau |
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| Borders on | |
| Coordinates | 36°39′30″N 109°40′06″W / 36.65833°N 109.66833°W |
| Rivers | |
| Lake | Many Farms Lake |
Chinle Valley is a 65-mile (105 km) long[1] valley located mostly in Apache County Arizona. Chinle Creek continues north into Utah to meet the San Juan River (Utah).
Chinle Valley is defined by the course of Chinle Wash, with the region as part of the high elevation Colorado Plateau. Numerous washes and creeks feed the Chinle Wash, because the valley lies among higher elevation regions; the Black Mesa borders its west and southwest, the Carrizo, Lukachukai, and Chuska Mountains border east and southeast. The south valley region is part of the northwest of the Defiance Plateau-(Defiace Uplift), and is the location ol Canyon de Chelly National Monument.
Chinle Valley is one of the locations for the Chinle Formation, (no type locality), of Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, and west Texas.
Monument Valley, of Arizona and Utah, is at the northwest border of Chinle Valley.
Creeks & lakes
Chinle Valley is mostly a north-south trending valley, about 65-mi long.[2] The valley contains numerous smaller mesas, and associated washes, that all trend into the centerline of the north-flowing Chinle Creek, (Chinle Wash).
The low point of the valley is in the north, where Chinle Creek continues north to meet the San Juan River in Utah, about 16-mi[3] distant from Mexican Water, Arizona.
Two lakes are found in Chinle Valley. Many Farms Lake is located on Sheep Dip Creek at Many Farms, Arizona, about 1.5-mi[4] from the Chinle Wash. Just northeast, and 3-mi southeast of Round Rock, Arizona is Round Rock Reservoir, located on Navajo Route 12, and between Lukachukai Creek (from the Lukachukai Mountains, 7-mi east), and Agua Sal Creek, from the northwest Chuska Mountains (the small Tunitcha Mountains area).
