Missouri River
General data
- Water type: River
- Progression: Mississippi River -> Gulf of Mexico -> Atlantic Ocean -> Planet Earth
- Climates: Temperate, Continental
- Continents: North America
- Countries: United States of America
Description
The Missouri River is a river in the Central and Mountain West regions of the United States. The nation’s longest, it rises in the eastern Centennial Mountains of the Bitterroot Range of the Rocky Mountains of southwestern Montana, then flows east and south for 2,341 miles (3,767 km)before entering the Mississippi River north of St. Louis, Missouri. The river drains semi-arid watershed of more than 500,000 square miles (1,300,000 km2), which includes parts of ten U.S. states and two Canadian provinces. Although a tributary of the Mississippi, the Missouri River is slightly longer and carries a comparable volume of water. When combined with the lower Mississippi River, it forms the world’s fourth-longest river system.
Rivers
Artificial lakes
Streams
Natural lakes
Centrarchiformes - Basses and sunfishes
Esociformes - Pikes
Cypriniformes - Carps
Perciformes - Perches
Siluriformes - Catfishes
Acipenseriformes - Sturgeons and Paddlefish
Acanthuriformes - Surgeonfishes
Clupeiformes - Herrings
Hiodontiformes - Mooneyes
Percopsiformes - Trout-perches
Cyprinodontiformes - Toothcarps
Catches
