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The Mississippi River System, also referred to as the Western Rivers, is a mostly riverine network of the United States which includes the Mississippi River and connecting waterways. The Mississippi River is the largest drainage basin in the United States. [3] In the United States, the Mississippi drains about 41% of the country's rivers.
This is a sortable list of tributaries of the Mississippi River. Table. Waterway Orientation Length (km) River flow at Discharge Mouth coordinates
The Mississippi River[b] is the primary river and second-longest river of the largest drainage basin in the United States. [c][15][16] From its traditional source of Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota, it flows generally south for 2,340 miles (3,766 km) [16] to the Mississippi River Delta in the Gulf of Mexico.
Clear Creek (Allamakee County, Iowa) Clearwater River (Mississippi River tributary) Cobb River (Minnesota) Coles Creek (Mississippi) Cota Creek. Crawfish River. Crooked Creek (Mississippi River tributary) Crow River (Minnesota) Crow Wing River.
A tributary, [1] or an affluent, [2] is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream (main stem or "parent"), river, or a lake. [3] A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. [4] Tributaries, and the main stem river into which they flow, drain the surrounding drainage basin of its surface water and groundwater, leading the ...
Sunflower River. Sunflower River west of Ruleville, Mississippi. The Sunflower River (also known as the Big Sunflower River) is one of the main tributaries of the Yazoo River in the U.S. state of Mississippi. It is navigable by barge for 50 miles. It rises in DeSoto County, Mississippi near the Tennessee border and flows south for 100 miles to ...
The list of rivers in Mississippi includes any rivers that flow through part of the State of Mississippi.The major rivers in Mississippi are the Mississippi River, Pearl River, Pascagoula River and the Tombigbee River, along with their main tributaries: the Tallahatchie River, Yazoo River, Big Black River, Leaf River, and the Chickasawhay River.
The Amite River / ˈeɪ.mit / (French: Rivière Amite) is a tributary of Lake Maurepas in Mississippi and Louisiana in the United States. It is about 117 miles (188 km) long. [2] It starts as two forks in southwestern Mississippi and flows south through Louisiana, passing Greater Baton Rouge, to Lake Maurepas.