Missouri River
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The Missouri River is the langest river in North Americae.[13]
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Missouri River | |
Pekitanoui[1], Big Muddy[2], Mighty Mo, Wide Missouri, Kícpaarukstiʾ[3], Lakota: Mnišoše[4][5] | |
A relatively undeveloped reach o the river near Rocheport, Missouri | |
Name oreegin: The Missouri tribe, whose name in turn meant "fowk wi widden canoes"[1] | |
Kintra | Unitit States |
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States | Montana, North Dakota, Sooth Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri |
Tributaries | |
- left | Jefferson, Dearborn, Sun, Marias, Milk, James, Big Sioux, Grand, Chariton |
- right | Madison, Gallatin, Yellowstone, Little Missouri, Cheyenne, White, Niobrara, Platte, Kansas, Osage, Gasconade |
Ceeties | Great Falls, MT, Bismarck, ND, Pierre, SD, Sioux City, IA, Omaha, NE, Kansas City, KS, Kansas City, MO, St. Louis, MO |
Primar soorce | Hell Roaring Creek, a tributary o the Jefferson River |
- location | near Brower's Spring, Montana |
- elevation | 9,100 ft (2,774 m) |
- coordinates | 44°32′31″N 111°27′53″W [6][7] |
Seicontar soorce | Firehole River, a tributary o the Madison River |
- location | Madison Lake, Yellowstone Naitional Pairk, Wyoming |
- elevation | 8,215 ft (2,504 m) |
- coordinates | 44°20′55″N 110°51′53″W [8] |
Soorce confluence | Missouri Headwaters State Park |
- location | Three Forks, Montana |
- elevation | 4,042 ft (1,232 m) |
- coordinates | 45°55′39″N 111°20′39″W [1] |
Mooth | Mississippi River |
- location | Spanish Lake, near St. Louis, Missouri |
- elevation | 404 ft (123 m) [1] |
- coordinates | 38°48′49″N 90°07′11″W [1] |
Lenth | 2,341 mi (3,767 km) [9] |
Basin | 529,350 sq mi (1,371,010 km2) [10] |
Discharge | for Hermann, MO; RM 97.9 (RKM 157.6) |
- average | 87,520 cu ft/s (2,478 m3/s) [11] |
- max | 750,000 cu ft/s (21,238 m3/s) [12] |
- min | 602 cu ft/s (17 m3/s) [11] |
Map of the Missouri River and its tributaries in North America |
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