Arkansas River
The Arkansas River flows east and southeast through Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and the state of Arkansas. It is the fourth largest river in the US at 1450 miles. The Arkansas River begins is in the Rockies near Leadville, Colorado, and it empties into the ocean at the historic site of Napoleon, Arkansas. It is the largest tributary in the Mississippi-Missouri system, with a drainage basin of nearly 195,000 square miles. Important cities on the Arkansas include Wichita, Kansas; Tulsa, Oklahoma; and Little Rock, Arkansas. In contrast to the state Arkansas, which is always pronounced ARE-kan-saw, the river is often pronounced are-KAN-zis.
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