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The widest point is a shallow lake (Lake Winnibigoshish) in Minnesota. It is 11 miles wide.
The navigable Mississippi River is not a wide channel, as narrow as 700 feet and as wide as 1 mile north of St. Louis, and back to about 1/2 mile wide at New Orleans.
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How many miles wide is Mississippi?
The state of Mississippi is at most 200 miles wide east to west (about 350 miles north to south).The Mississippi River at its widest point is 11 miles wide (Lake Winnibigoshish, MN). At New Orleans, it is a little more than 1/2 mile wide. At its delta, which is more than 100 miles wide, it divides into several channels of smaller width.
What is the shallowest point in the Mississippi river?
The smallest point of the Mississippi River is at Lake Itasca, in Minnesota, where it is only 20 to 30 feet wide. At Lake Winnibigoshish, it is about 11 miles wide.
What is wider Columbia river or Mississippi river?
The Mississippi River is wider than the Columbia River. The Mississippi River varies in width along its course, but at its widest point near Alton, Illinois, it can reach over 3 miles wide. In comparison, the Columbia River is typically less than a mile wide.
What is the landscape that starts on the western bank of the Mississippi river and is about 500 miles wide?
great plains
Is the Mississippi river wide and deep?
Pretty much, yes. It is the largest river known in united states. The mississippi river, which starts from minnesota all the way to Gulf of Mexico, is about 2552 miles long. Its maximum width gets about 2.5 miles wide and maximum depth can be 210 ft deep.
What is the exact width of the Mississippi river?
The Mississippi is widest above its navigable portion, where it is 11 miles wide at Lake Winnibigoshish. It reaches its widest navigable width downstream from its confluence with the Missouri River (near Alton, IL) where it is nearly 1 mile across. It is about 1/2 mile wide at New Orleans, LA before entering its delta.
Is the mississippi river longer than the pacific Ocean?
The Pacific Ocean is not 'long'; it is wide. But the Pacific is much wider [maximum 12,300 miles] than the Mississippi is long [2320 miles].
What is the long wide river valley from Minnestota to Louisiana called?
Mississippi River
How many Rivers world wide areLonger than Mississippi river?
Nile 4,135 miles North/East Africa 2. Amazon 3,980 miles South America 3. Chang Jiang (Yangtze) 3,917 miles China 4. Mississippi-Missouri 3,870 miles USA
How wide is the Mississippi river?
1 mile
Does the Illinois River flow into the Mississippi River?
The Illinois River empties into the Mississippi River. The Illinois River is where the Kankakee River and the Des Plaines River join near Joliet, IL. It joins the Mississippi River north of St. Louis and 20 miles upstream from where the Missouri River joins the Mississippi River.
Widest river in north America?
Some people would say it's the St. Johns river in Jacksonville, Florida - approximately 2.5 miles wide, but the Mississippi River, at Lake Winnibigoshish (near Grand Rapids, Minnesota), is more than 7 miles (11 km) across.
