Two people died when a helicopter crashed into a barge in the Mississippi River near East Alton, Illinois, recently.
About Mississippi River:
It is the longest river in the United States and the second longest in North America.
It starts at Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota and flows south until it reaches the Gulf of Mexico.
The major tributaries are the Red, Arkansas, Illinois, Missouri, and Ohio.
The Mississippi River alone is more than 2,300 miles (3,700 kilometers) long.
If the length of the Missouri River system is added, the Mississippi-Missouri is the world’s fourth longest river system, following the Nile (4,160 miles/6,693km), the Amazon (4,000 miles/6,436km), and the Yangtze Rivers (3,964 miles/6,378km).
The Mississippi River basin drains 1,260,000 square miles, making it the largest drainage basin in terms of area in North America.
The basin is home to different ecosystems, including wet forests dominated by cypress trees, brackish and freshwater marshes, sandy beaches, and salt marshes.
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