Rice Valley
| Rice Valley | |
| Valley | |
 Sand dune region in Rice Valley Wilderness | |
| Country | United States |
|---|---|
| State | California |
| Regions | (southeast)-Mojave Desert Parker Valley-(CA-AZ) Lower Colorado River Valley |
| County | Riverside County, California |
| Borders on | Little Maria Mountains-SW Arica Mountains(minor range)-W Danby Dry Lake & Ward Valley (California)-NNW Turtle Mountains CA-N West Riverside Mountains-NE & E "Big Wash"-E Big Maria Mountains-SE & S |
| Communities | Rice, CA; Poston, AZ & Poston Two |
| Coordinates | 34°05′01″N 114°50′59″W / 34.08361°N 114.84972°WCoordinates: 34°05′01″N 114°50′59″W / 34.08361°N 114.84972°W |
| Lowest point | Colorado River |
| - location | Parker Valley |
| Length | 22 mi (35 km), ~NW-SE |
| Width | 15 mi (24 km) |
  Rice Valley
in extreme southeast California | |
The Rice Valley is a small tributary valley draining into the Colorado River from extreme southeast Riverside County, California.
Rice Valley contains the Rice Valley Wilderness.
Geography
Rice Valley is a mostly endorheic valley filled with bajadas from neighboring mountain ranges, and sand dune fields because of northwest and westerly winds. The adjacent valley northwest the Ward Valley (California) is also endorheic with Danby Dry Lake as its lowpoint. Southwesterly across neighboring mountain ranges are the two endorheic lakes Palen Lake and Ford Dry Lake, low points of Palen Valley and the Chuckwalla Valley.
The exit point of Rice Valley is a small drainage of the non-endorheic southeast region, called Big Wash. It flows between the Big Maria Mountains on the south, and the West Riverside Mountains on the north, and empties into the west side of Parker Valley on the Colorado River.
See also
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rice Valley. |
- Rice Valley Wilderness
- Rice Solar Energy Project
- List of valleys of the Lower Colorado River Valley
- Valleys of Riverside County
- Valleys of San Bernardino County
References
- Sand Dune locations, north of Big Maria Mountains & southwest of the Riverside Mountains, southeast Rice Valley, a wind stricture point: (BLM map for Riverside Mountains Wilderness, northwest Big Maria's map),