U.S. Major Rivers

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Missouri River

• The Missouri river runs 2,540 miles long

• Also called the “big muddy”

• Runs from Missouri to Montana

Mississippi River

• Runs 2,340 miles long

• Called the “old man River”

• Flows from Wisconsin

To Louisiana .

Yukon River

• Runs 1,980 miles long

• Flows throughout

Alaska

Rio Grande

• Runs 1,900 miles long

• Flows from Colorado

And down around Texas

St. Lawrence River

• Runs 1,890 miles long

• World’s longest

*Once nicknamed

“The Garden of Great Spirits” by the Natives.

*Runs from New York into Canada

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The Arkansas River

• Runs from Arkansas to Colorado

• 1,460 miles long