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Laguña Creek also formerly also known as Tyende Creek, is a stream in the Navajo and Apache Counties of Arizona. Laguña Creek has its source at 36°41′15″N 110°30′36″W / 36.68750°N 110.51000°W / 36.68750; -110.51000, at the confluence of Long Canyon and Dowozhiebito Canyon at an elevation of 6,325 feet (1,928 meters) at the head of Tsegi Canyon. Its mouth is in the Chinle Valley at its confluence with Chinle Wash which together forms Chinle Creek, at an elevation of 4,774 feet (1,455 meters). Chinle Creek is a tributary of San Juan River which is in turn a tributary of the Colorado River.

References

1. Herbert Ernest Gregory, Water Supply Paper 380, The Navajo Country:A Geographic and Hydrographic Reconnaissance of Parts of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, 1916
2. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Laguña Creek

External links

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36°53′40″N 109°44′37″W / 36.89444°N 109.74361°W / 36.89444; -109.74361

• Tributaries of the Colorado River in Arizona
• Colorado Plateau
• Rivers of Apache County, Arizona
• Rivers of Navajo County, Arizona
• Geography of the Navajo Nation
• Old Spanish Trail (trade route)
• Rivers of Arizona