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{{Short description|Colorado river aqueduct supplying metro Phoenix and Tucson}}
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{{Infobox aqueduct
|name=Central Arizona Project
|image=Central Arizona Project logo.png
|starts=[[Lake Havasu]], [[La Paz County, Arizona|La Paz County]]
|ends=Pima Mine Road, [[Pima County, Arizona|Pima County]]
|coordinates={{coord|34|17|10|N|114|06|13|W|display=inline/title}}
|length={{convert|336|mi|abbr=on}}
|capacity= 456 billion gallons (1.4 million acre feet) per year
|open=1993
|begin=1973
| owner               = [[United States Bureau of Reclamation]]
| maint = Central Arizona Water Conservation District 
}}

The '''Central Arizona Project''' ('''CAP''') is a 336&nbsp;mi (541&nbsp;km) [[Aqueduct (water supply)|diversion canal]] in [[Arizona]] in the southern United States.

The [[Aqueduct (bridge)|aqueduct]] diverts water from the [[Colorado River]] at the Bill Williams Wildlife Refuge south portion of [[Lake Havasu]] near [[Parker, Arizona|Parker]] into central and southern Arizona. CAP is managed and operated by the Central Arizona Water Conservation District (CAWCD).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cap-az.com/ |title=Central Arizona Project|publisher=Central Arizona Project|access-date=2010-07-10}}</ref> It was shepherded through Congress by [[Carl Hayden]].<ref>[[Jack August|Jack L. August Jr.]], ''Vision in the Desert: Carl Hayden and Hydropolitics in the American Southwest'' (1999). p. 69 {{ISBN?}}</ref>