Mississippi und alle seine Nebenflüsse
Von vladgrinch
Mississippi und alle seine Nebenflüsse
Von vladgrinch
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The Mississippi River is fed by thousands of tributaries, forming one of the largest drainage systems in the world. Its basin covers much of the central United States, carrying water from the Rockies, Appalachians, Great Lakes region and Gulf Coast toward the Gulf of Mexico.
Look at those western and eastern continental divides
The Mississippi basin is arguably the heart of America
The reason that early USA railroads need to connect only east and west.
The Red River Valley between ND and Minnesota isn’t part of the Mississippi system.
Nice drainage!
This map can’t be right. All rivers North of Lake Itasca in MN flow North to Hudson Bay.
What’s the vertical drop from St. Louis to the delta?
Though this map isn’t completely accurate, it’s a good representation of why America’s geography is so OP.
What’s amazing is that all the rivers and streams form exactly at the US/Canada border!
Like the bones of the western interior seaway.
Seems like there are more above the cutoff line, so not all.
This map is cutoff and rather terrible
Ohio is extremely wrong, the Lakes/St Lawrence watershed only dips down just past Lima. Most of the state drains to the Ohio.
Bad map.
Whoever controlled this river would control this hemisphere. The US was lucky it did not stay in French or Spanish hands
Your map is not accurate.
For example, in the Red River Valley in northern Minnesota and North Dakota, water flows into the Red River, which flows north and empties into Hudson Bay.
Does water flow out of Lake Michigan into this system?
Why did you stop at the border it extends into Alberta and Saskatchewan
inside USA, you mean. Because it’s clear the basin goes deep in Canada.
Do you have a version of this map that includes the parts of the US along the Canadian border? And maybe even the part of the watershed that’s inside Canada?
to pile on the „this map is shit“ bandwagon, the Mississippi River watershed doesn’t dip into Alabama like that. The dongle that dips into central Alabama is part of the Black Warrior watershed.
This map has been posted before and it is incorrect. Both Red Rivers are wrong: Red River of the North flows northwards into Lake Winnipeg and is not part of the Mississippi drainage, and the Red River starting in TX/Okla is mediated by the Old River Control Structure and flows into the Atchafalaya, never quite reaching the Mississippi.
There’s a lot of ND and MN that isn’t part of the drainage.
Good gawd, how long did it take to map this system?
Yeah, the Potomac headwaters are on this map, and per the other comments, seems there are many errors in the image.
Looks like old louisiana
The hydrology nerd inside me absolutely loves this!
incoming Missouri River fans
This is so incredibly inaccurate.
Wrong
I’m only 64 so I might have a ways to go yet, but this is the worst map I’ve ever seen.
I live on the Mighty Genesee River and we send our water northward.
Really illustrates how much drier the west is when you realize that the Ohio adds more water to the river system than the entire Missouri-Upper Mississippi.
Show us on the map where the Mississippi River has touched you
Atchafalaya River really ought to be included
That would be an incredible adventure for a person living in a house boat.
Needs new title, Mississippi River and a cropped screenshot highlighting random tributaries around the US
Not all. I don’t see the Frenchman River system in southern Saskatchewan.
Umm, sooo, the tributaries stop at the Canadian border?
I recently learned that there’s a canal built from the Chicago river to a Mississippi tributary that causes water to flow from Lake Michigan to the Mississipi, for the sake of waste disposal from Chicago. Obviously this is a much smaller amount than flows out the St Lawrence system, but does it mean that the Upper Great Lakes are tributaries to the Mississip?
I have had people ask why the Mississippi river in New Orleans looks the way it does. I will save this picture to show them so they can understand that the silt and debris from the majority of the country flows down to one spot.
It’s kind of wild that you can hop into a boat in upstate New York and your friend can do the same in western Canada, and then you both float all the way downriver and meet each other in New Orleans.