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The Minnesota River (Dakota: Mnísota Wakpá) is a tributary of the Mississippi River, approximately 332 miles (534 km) long, in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It drains a watershed of 14,751 square miles (38,200 km 2) in Minnesota and about 2,000 sq mi (5,200 km 2) in South Dakota and Iowa. It rises in southwestern Minnesota, in Big Stone Lake ...
The Minnesota River is the longest river that is entirely within Minnesota. Mississippi River. Minnesota River, 370 mi-long (600 km) Credit River, 21.5 mi (34.6 km) Sand Creek, 36.6 mi-long (58.9 km) High Island Creek, 69.4 mi-long (111.7 km) Rush River, 19.8 mi-long (31.9 km) South Branch Rush River.
Map of Minnesota bedrock by age. Shaded relief image: Superior Upland in the northeast, the flat Red River Valley in the northwest, Central Minnesota's irregular landscape, the Coteau des Prairies and Minnesota River in the southwest, and the southeast's dissected Driftless Area along the Mississippi River below its confluences with the Minnesota and St. Croix in East Central Minnesota
Minnesota's first state park, Itasca State Park, was established in 1891, and is the source of the Mississippi River. [21] Today Minnesota has 72 state parks and recreation areas, 58 state forests covering about four million acres (16,000 km 2), and numerous state wildlife preserves, all managed by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.
Water flows to the north in the Hudson Bay/Artic drainage basin (3,861,400 sq mi (10,001,000 km 2)), which includes the Red River of the North drainage basin (111,004 sq mi (287,500 km 2)) and Lake of the Woods drainage basin (13,805 sq mi (35,750 km 2))—of which 7,285 sq mi (18,870 km 2) is in Minnesota.
Via the Minnesota River, the Blue Earth River is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of 3,486 square miles (9,030 km 2) in an agricultural region. Ninety percent of the river's watershed is in Minnesota. [6] It is a Minnesota Department of Natural Resources designated Water Trail.
Little Minnesota River. The Little Minnesota River is a 71.4-mile-long (114.9 km) [1] headwaters tributary of the Minnesota River in northeastern South Dakota and west-central Minnesota in the United States. [2] Via the Minnesota River, it is part of the Mississippi River watershed. [3]
The Pomme de Terre River is a 125-mile-long (201 km) [ 3] tributary of the Minnesota River in western Minnesota in the United States. Via the Minnesota River, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of 875 square miles (2,270 km 2) in an agricultural region. The headwaters region of the Pomme de Terre River is the ...