It is mostly north–south and is bordered on the east by Reservation Route 12, a north stretch from Window Rock, Arizona to Navajo, New Mexico.

Red Lake is located on the eastern border of the long north–south Defiance Plateau, where Canyon de Chelly comprises its north, and the Chuska Mountains border to the northeast.

From Red Lake, Black Creek flows due south on the central and southeast border of the Defiance Plateau.

The north–south stretch of Black Creek, in Arizona, parallels the western border of New Mexico.

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