Sungai Mississippi
Sungai Mississippi ialah sungai di Amerika Serikat. Ia merupakan salah satu sungai terpanjang di dunia dan merupakan sungai terpanjang ke dua di Amerika Utara. Sungai ini memiliki panjang 3,734 km (2,320 mi) dan bersumber pada Danau Itasca di Minnesota dan berujung pada Teluk Sonder.
Nama "Mississippi" berasal dari bahasa penduduk asli Amerika yang berarti "Bapak Air"
Mata air Mississippi ialah di negara bagian Minnesota, dekat perbatasan dengan Kanada. Mississippi mengalir dari selatan melintasi tengah AS. Mengalir melewati negara bagian Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, dan Mississippi.
Muara Mississippi ialah di negara bagian Louisiana, selatan kota New Orleans. Mississippi bermuara di Teluk Meksiko.
Mississippi memiliki banyak anak sungai. Batas air Mississippi meliputi kebanyakan AS. Ini berarti bahwa Mississippi dan anak-anak sungainya mengalir di kebanyakan negara AS.
Beberapa anak sungai terpenting Mississippi ialah (didaftarkan dari mata air ke muara sungai):
- Sungai Minnesota
- Sungai St. Croix
- Sungai Wisconsin
- Sungai Illinois
- Sungai Missouri
- Sungai Ohio
- Sungai Arkansas
Mississippi telah menjadi sungai penting dalam sejarah AS. Saat pertama kali AS menjadi negara, Sungai Mississippi merupakan perbatasan barat AS. Dalam sejarah AS, Mississippi telah menjadi sangat penting untuk pengangkutan dengan air.[butuh rujukan]
Referensi
sunting- ^ The United States Geological Survey recognizes two contrasting definitions of a river's source.USGS.gov Diarsipkan June 30, 2017, di Wayback Machine. By the stricter definition, the Mississippi would share its source with its longest tributary, the Missouri, at Brower's Spring in Montana. The other definition acknowledges "somewhat arbitrary decisions" and places the Mississippi's source at Lake Itasca, which is publicly accepted as the source,USGS.gov and which had been identified as such by Brower himself.MT.gov Diarsipkan January 18, 2012, di Wayback Machine. However, the river continues for several miles upstream from Lake Itasca to Nicolet Lake and its feeder stream.
- ^ a b Kammerer, J.C. (May 1990). "Largest Rivers in the United States". U.S. Geological Survey. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal June 30, 2017. Diakses tanggal February 22, 2011.
- ^ "USGS 07289000 Mississippi River at Vicksburg, MS". United States Geological Survey. Diakses tanggal October 6, 2021.
- ^ a b Median of the 14,610 daily streamflows recorded by the USGS for the period 1967–2006.
- ^ James L. Shaffer and haris T. Tigges. The Mississippi River: Father of Waters. Chicago, Ill.: Arcadia Pub., 2000.
- ^ The Upper Mississippi River Basin: A Portrait of the Father of Waters As Seen by the Upper Mississippi River Comprehensive Basin Study. Chicago, Ill.: Army Corps of Engineers, North Central Division, 1972.
- ^ Heilbron, Bertha L. "Father of Waters: Four Centuries of the Mississippi". American Heritage, vol. 2, no. 1 (Autumn 1950): 40–43.