Mississippi River
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| Length | 3,778 km |
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| Source | Lake Itasca |
| Mouth | Gulf of Mexico |
| Bridges | Minneapolis Stone Arch Bridge |
| Eads Bridge | |
| Cities | New Orleans |
| St. Louis | |
| Memphis | |
| Baton Rouge | |
| Minneapolis | |
| Saint Paul | |
| La Crosse | |
| Did you know | It was eleven hundred and eighty after the cut-off of 1722. |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 809256 |
About Mississippi River
The Mississippi River is the second-longest river and chief river of the second-largest drainage system on the North American continent, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system.
Apec Summit: Xi Jinping's surprising ties to rural Iowa
... He stayed in Muscatine, a city of about 24,000 people circled by farmland and the Mississippi River...
How the fentanyl crisis' fourth wave has hit every corner of the US
... " In 2018, around 80% of fentanyl overdoses happened east of the Mississippi River, " Chelsea Shover, an assistant professor at UCLA s school of medicine and co-author of the study, told the BBC...
The US is the world's biggest corn exporter - but for how long?
... " We had a weather-reduced crop, and we had the Mississippi River drying up last fall and early winter that slowed our exports way down, " Mr Haerr says...
'We are selling a product that we hope gets discontinued'
... Fast-forward to today, and the fish have spread widely along the Mississippi River and its tributary rivers and connected canals...
Droughts leave cargo riverboats high and dry
... The Mississippi River is used to transport but last year were estimated to " Droughts are not a new phenomenon, " says Ms Schiffling, " but [last year] we saw droughts in multiple areas across the world, all at the same time...
The truth about 'medbeds' - a miracle cure that doesn't exist
... A converted motel in a small town on the Mississippi River seems an unlikely home for a world-changing technology - what a flyer in the mostly deserted lobby calls a " new wave of scientific healing"...
The British girl who went to her death row pen pal
... Louisiana State Penitentiary adjacent to the Mississippi River on three sides with a forest on the fourth Tucked away in a bend of the Mississippi River, the Louisiana State Penitentiary is the largest high-security prison in the United States...
Why is so much of the US under water?
... The Mississippi River system contains an elaborate network of dams, levees and spillways, run by the US Army Corps of Engineers, Prof Munoz says...
Mississippi River Photos
