Hudson River

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Introduction to Rivers
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Hudson River

• The Hudson River flows from north to south
  through eastern New York State and forms the
  border between New York City and New Jersey at
  its mouth before emptying into the Atlantic
  Ocean. It is named for Henry Hudson, an
  Englishman sailing for the Dutch East India
  Company, who explored it in 1609.

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Mississippi River

• The Mississippi River is red. It flows into the
  Gulf of Mexico. The name Mississippi is derived
  from the Ojibwe word misi-ziibi ("Great River")
  or gichi-ziibi ("Big River") at its headwaters.

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Ohio River

• The Ohio River travels through many states.
  During the nineteenth century, it was the
  southern boundary of the Northwest Territory,
  thus serving as the border between free and slave
  territory.

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Rio Grande

• Known as the Rio Grande in the United States and
  as the Río Bravo (or, more formally, the Río
  Bravo del Norte) in Mexico, this river,
  1,885 miles (3,034 km) long, is the fourth
  longest river system in the United States1 and
  serves as a natural boundary along the border
  between the U.S. state of Texas and the Mexican
  states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and
  Tamaulipas.

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Colorado River

• The Colorado River cuts through the Grand Canyon.
  The Colorado River ('Aha Kwahwat in Mojave)2 is
  a river in the southwestern United States and
  northwestern Mexico, approximately 1,450 mi
  (2,330 km) long, draining a part of the arid
  regions on the western slope of the Rocky
  Mountains. The natural course of the river flows
  into the Gulf of California, but the heavy use of
  the river as an irrigation source for the
  Imperial Valley has desiccated the lower course
  of the river in Mexico such that it no longer
  consistently reaches the sea.

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Rivers provide drinking water, irrigation water,
transportation, electrical power, drainage, food,
and recreation. Rivers also erode land and carry
it downstream to the sea. This kind of erosion
can even form canyons, like the Grand Canyon, and
waterfalls, like Niagara Falls.