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This is a sortable list of tributaries of the Mississippi River.
27 Αυγ 2024 · Tributaries of Mississippi. Missouri River: The longest tributary, flowing from Montana to St. Louis, Missouri. Ohio River: Formed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, it flows southwest to Cairo, Illinois, and joins the Mississippi. Arkansas River: Originating in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, it flows into the Mississippi River in Arkansas.
29 Οκτ 2024 · Mississippi River, the longest river of North America, draining with its major tributaries an area of approximately 1.2 million square miles, or about one-eighth of the entire continent. With its tributaries, the Mississippi River drains all or part of 31 U.S. states and two provinces in Canada.
The Mississippi River is the largest drainage basin in the United States and the second-longest river in North America. It is also the 15th largest river by discharge in the world. This schematic map of the Mississippi and its major tributaries shows the extent of this watershed.
The Mississippi River stemmed from Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota where it was only a tiny outlet stream. It worked its way 2,350 miles (3,780 km) south to the Gulf of Mexico. Today, the Mississippi River is connected to hundreds of tributaries making up the Mississippi River System.
23 Σεπ 2016 · The animated map above, made by NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio, highlights the river’s huge watershed and every river in it, conveying a magnitude that can be hard to fathom.
The Mississippi River is known as the Middle Mississippi from the Upper Mississippi River's confluence with the Missouri River at St. Louis, Missouri, for 190 miles (310 km) to its confluence with the Ohio River at Cairo, Illinois.
