Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Oklahoma , Colorado , New Mexico , Texas
- Source
- Rocky Mountains
- Location
- Las Animas County, Colorado
- Coordinates
- 37°01′11″N 105°04′33″W / 37.01972°N 105.07583°W / 37.01972; -105.07583
- Elevation
- 2,900 m (9,500 ft)
- Mouth
- Arkansas River (1st place), North Canadian River (2nd place)
- Length
- 1,026 mi (1,651 km)
- Basin size
- 47,576 sq mi (123,220 km )
- Average
- 6,434 cu ft/s (182.2 m /s)
- Minimum
- 357 cu ft/s (10.1 m /s)
- Maximum
- 281,000 cu ft/s (8,000 m /s)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Oklahoma
- Image
- Canadian River Calvin Oklahoma.jpg
- Length
- 1458
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- Commons category
- Canadian River
- mouth of the watercourse
- Arkansas River
- watershed area
- 124000
- discharge
- 200
- origin of the watercourse
- Rocky Mountains
- described by source
- Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Canadian River is the longest tributary of the Arkansas River. Entirely within the United States, it is about 1,026 miles (1,651 km) long, starting in Colorado and traveling through New Mexico, the Texas Panhandle, and Oklahoma. The drainage area is about 47,700 square miles (124,000 km).
The Canadian is sometimes referred to as the South Canadian River to differentiate it from its tributary the North Canadian River.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Canadian River” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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