Mississippi River
For the river in Canada, see
Mississippi River (Ontario). The Mississippi River, derived from the old
Ojibwe word misi-ziibi meaning 'great river' (gichi-ziibi 'big river' at its headwaters), is the second longest
river in
North America, with a length of 2,320 miles (3,733 km) from
Lake Itasca to the
Gulf of Mexico. The Mississippi River is part of the
Jefferson-
Missouri-Mississippi river system, which is the largest in North America and among the largest in the world: by length (6,275 km or 3,900 miles), it is the
fourth longest, and by average discharge (16,200 m³/s), it is the
tenth largest. The longest of the many long Mississippi tributaries is the
Missouri River with the
Arkansas River as second longest. Measured by water volume, the largest of all Mississippi tributaries is the
Ohio River. The river starts in
Minnesota and then empties into the
Gulf of Mexico.
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