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The Mendota Bridge crossing the Minnesota River, just above its mouth
View of the Minnesota River from Memorial Park; southeast of Granite Falls, MN.
The 'Minnesota River' is a tributary of the Mississippi River, approximately 332 miles (534 km) long, in the state of Minnesota in the United States. It drains a watershed of nearly 17,000 square miles (44,000 km²), 14,751 square miles (38,205 km²) in Minnesota and about 2,000 sq mi (5180 km²) in South Dakota and Iowa.
It rises in southwestern Minnesota, in Big Stone Lake on the Minnesota-South Dakota border just south of the Laurentian Divide at the Traverse Gap portage. It flows southeast to Mankato, then turns northeast. It joins the Mississippi south of the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, near the historic Fort Snelling. The valley is one of several distinct regions of Minnesota.
Its name comes from the Dakota language ''mini'' meaning "water" and ''sota'' which is alternately translated "smoky-white" or "like the cloudy sky". Minnesota Territory, and later the state, were named for the river.
The valley that the Minnesota River flows in is up to five miles (8 km) wide and 250 feet (80 m) deep.[1] It was carved into the landscape by the massive glacial River Warren between 11,700 and 9,400 years ago at the end of the last ice age in North America.
| Contents |
| Principal tributaries of the Minnesota River |
| Cities and towns along the Minnesota River |
| See also |
| References |
| External links |
Principal tributaries of the Minnesota River
Cities and towns along the Minnesota River
See also
★ List of Minnesota rivers
★ List of crossings of the Minnesota River
References
1. Sansome, ''Minnesota Underfoot'', pp. 118-19.
★ Waters, Thomas F. (1977). ''The Streams and Rivers of Minnesota''. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 0-8166-0960-8.
★ Place Names: the Minnesota River
External links
★ Drainage Area of the Minnesota River
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