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Welcome to my paper on the Mississippi River


In this paper we will be talking about the shape of the river as well as where it flows We also have to talk about the problem of pollution in the Mississippi River There is the life in and around the river topic we will be talking about There also is the locks the uses of the river and some interesting facts I found while researching The Mississippi River has a unique shape from its great length to its meanders and all of the above The Mississippi River is 2 320 The river is very narrow in places and very wide in places The narrowest point is 30 to 40 feet wide and the widest section is 11 miles wide The widest navigable section is 2 miles wide The Mississippi can wide and narrow but it can also be pretty deep and shallow The most shallow section is three feet deep but the deepest part is 200 feet deep The river also has a good amount of meanders too There are too many to count and trust me I've tried Every river needs places to start end and go through Like every other river the Mississippi River has all of those The Mississippi River starts in Lake Itasca and ends in the Gulf of Mexico near New Orleans The river goes through ten states in total In the Midwest the river goes through Minnesota Wisconsin Illinois and Iowa and in the Southeast Kentucky Tennessee Missouri Arkansas Louisiana and astonishingly Mississippi There are seven major cities that the river travels through 



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