Cairo, Illinois is located at the junction of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers.
A river formed by the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers in western Pennsylvania and flowing about 1,578 km (981 mi) to the Mississippi River at Cairo in southern Illinois. Control of the river was contested by the British and French until 1763. The region was ceded to the United States at the end of the Revolutionary War (1783).
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The river meets the ocean, causing its speed to decrease, which allows sediments carried by the river to settle out as the water slows down. This process is known as sediment deposition, which forms deltas where the river meets the ocean.
The term for the place where a tide meets a river current is called the "tidal bore." This phenomenon occurs when the rising tide enters a river channel, causing the water to flow upstream against the current.
The River Severn is technically neither a delta nor an estuary. The River Severn is a tidal river that flows into the Bristol Channel. It has characteristics of both a river and an estuary, where the freshwater river meets the saltwater of the sea.
Cairo, Illinois is located at the junction of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers.
The Ohio River meets the Mississippi River in Cairo, Illinois. They converge at Fort Defiance State Park which was a Civil War fort commanded by General Ulysses S. Grant.
Huck's destination in the canoe was Cairo, Illinois. He planned to reach Cairo, where the Ohio River meets the Mississippi River, then catch a steamboat down the Mississippi to freedom.
It begins at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and runs to Cairo, Illinois where it meets the Mississippi River.
A river formed by the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers in western Pennsylvania and flowing about 1,578 km (981 mi) to the Mississippi River at Cairo in southern Illinois. Control of the river was contested by the British and French until 1763. The region was ceded to the United States at the end of the Revolutionary War (1783).
The Ohio River creates the southern borders of Indiana, Illinois, and Ohio where it meets the Mississippi River.
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270 miles (434 kilometers).The Illinois River flows through Illinois, from the northeast of the state at the end of the Kankakee River and the Des Plaines River in Grundy County and flowing down 270 miles to the southwest, where it meets the Mississippi River
The Missouri River, which meets the mighty Mississippi in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Missouri River
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