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The Columbia River is the lairgest river in the Paceefic Northwast region o North Americae.
Columbia River | |
Bonneville Dam, in the Columbia River Gorge | |
Name oreegin: Captain Robert Gray's ship, Columbia Rediviva | |
Nickname: Big River, the River o the Wast, River Oregon[1] | |
Kintras | Unitit States, Canadae |
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States | Washington, Oregon |
Province | Breetish Columbie |
Tributaries | |
- left | Spillimacheen River, Beaver River, Illecillewaet River, Incomappleux River, Kootenay River, Pend Oreille River, Spokane River, Snake River, John Day River, Deschutes River, Willamette River |
- right | Kicking Horse River, Blaeberry River, Canoe River, Kettle River, Sanpoil River, Okanogan River, Entiat River, Wenatchee River, Yakima River, Lewis River, Cowlitz River |
Ceeties | Revelstoke, BC, Wenatchee, WA, East Wenatchee, WA, Tri-Cities, WA, The Dalles, OR, Hood River, OR, Portland, OR, Vancouver, WA, Longview, WA, Astoria, OR |
Soorce | Columbia Lake |
- location | British Columbia, Canada |
- elevation | 2,690 ft (820 m) [2] |
- coordinates | 50°13′35″N 115°51′05″W [3] |
Mooth | Paceefic Ocean, at Clatsop County, Oregon / Pacific County, Washington |
- elevation | 0 ft (0 m) |
- coordinates | 46°14′39″N 124°3′29″W [4] |
Lenth | 1,243 mi (2,000 km) [5] |
Basin | 258,000 sq mi (668,000 km2) |
Discharge | for mouth (average); max and min at The Dalles, Oregon, 188.9 mile (304.0 km) from the mouth |
- average | 265,000 cu ft/s (7,500 m3/s) [6] [7][8] |
- max | 1,240,000 cu ft/s (35,100 m3/s) |
- min | 12,100 cu ft/s (300 m3/s) |
Columbia River drainage basin | |
Wikimedia Commons: Columbia River | |