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West Kettle River (British Columbia) Pend Oreille River (British Columbia, Washington, Idaho; see below for sub-tributaries) Kootenay River (British Columbia, Idaho, Montana; see below for sub-tributaries) Hugh Keenleyside Dam and Arrow Lakes (British Columbia) Whatshan River (British Columbia)
The Columbia River ( Upper Chinook: Wimahl or Wimal; Sahaptin: Nch’i-Wàna or Nchi wana; Sinixt dialect swah'netk'qhu) is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. [11] The river forms in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia, Canada.
Vancouver Lake. / 45.6779; -122.721. 1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure. Vancouver Lake is located just west of Vancouver, Washington, United States, north of the Columbia River and Portland, Oregon, south of Ridgefield, Washington, and the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge . The lake is shallow, with a maximum depth of 12 to 15 ...
Opened in 1966, it is more than 4 miles long and built to withstand vicious currents and waves and winds of up to 150 mph howling through the Columbia River Gorge. But it was not built for this.
Including just the dams listed below, there are 60 dams in the watershed, with 14 on the Columbia, 20 on the Snake, seven on the Kootenay, seven on the Pend Oreille / Clark, two on the Flathead, eight on the Yakima, and two on the Owyhee. Averaging a major dam every 72 miles (116 km), the rivers in the Columbia watershed combine to generate ...
Headwaters at Vancouver Waterfront Park. Coordinates: 45°37′25″N 122°40′47.5″W. / 45.62361°N 122.679861°W / 45.62361; -122.679861. In August 2019, [1] a water feature was installed in Vancouver, Washington 's Waterfront Park, in the United States. The City of Vancouver has referred to the installation as the Columbia River ...
The Columbia River Gorge is a canyon of the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Up to 4,000 feet (1,200 m) deep, the canyon stretches for over eighty miles (130 km) as the river winds westward through the Cascade Range, forming the boundary between the state of Washington to the north and Oregon to the south. [1]
Bonneville Lock and Dam / ˈbɒnəvɪl / consists of several run-of-the-river dam structures that together complete a span of the Columbia River between the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington at River Mile 146.1. [6] The dam is located 40 miles (64 km) east of Portland, Oregon, in the Columbia River Gorge.