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The Missouri River The Missouri River is the longest river in North America. Its source is the Rocky Mountains from where it flows east and south for 2,341 miles before draining in the Mississippi at St. Louis, Missouri. It drains through a sparsely populated and semi-arid watershed that includes a part of the US and two Canadian provinces. Although the Missouri is a tributary of the Mississippi, it is longer above the confluence and together they form the fourth largest rivers system in the world. Map of the Missouri River in the United States. Contents: Course The headwaters of the Missouri River are formed by the confluence of the Jefferson, Gallatin, and Madison Rivers in the Rocky Mountains, southwestern Montana. Missouri is fed by 95 significant tributaries and hundreds of smaller streams with most of the large ones coming in as it draws closer to its mouth. The watershed comprises of the drainage basin stretching over 529,350 square miles from the Rocky Mountains in th

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