Arkansas River

Arkansas River
River
The lawer pairt o the Arkansas River near Little Rock, Arkansas
Kintra	Unitit States
States	Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas
Region	Great Plains
Pairt o	Mississippi River wattershed
Tributaries
- left	Fountain Creek, Pawnee River, Little Arkansas River, Walnut River, Verdigris River, Neosho River
- right	Cimarron River, Salt Fork Arkansas River, Canadian River, Poteau River
Ceeties	Pueblo, CO, Wichita, KS, Tulsa, OK, Muskogee, OK, Fort Smith, AR, Little Rock, AR, Pine Bluff, AR
Soorce	Confluence o East Fork Arkansas River an Tennessee Creek
- location	Near Leadville, Rocky Mountains, Colorado
- elevation	9,728 ft (2,965 m)
- coordinates	39°15′30″N 106°20′38″W
Mooth	Mississippi River
- location	Franklin Tounship, Desha Coonty, near Napoleon, Arkansas
- elevation	108 ft (33 m)
- coordinates	33°46′30″N 91°04′15″W
Lenth	1,469 mi (2,364 km), Wast-east
Basin	168,002 sq mi (435,123 km2)
Discharge	for Dardanelle, Arkansas, river mile 219.5 (river kilometer 353.3)
- average	40,517 cu ft/s (1,147 m3/s)
- max	683,000 cu ft/s (19,340 m3/s)
- min	1,207 cu ft/s (34 m3/s)
The Arkansas River flowes throu Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, an Arkansas, an its wattershed an aa drains pairts o Texas, New Mexico an Missouri.

The Arkansas River is a major tributary o the Mississippi River. It generally flowes tae the east an sootheast as it traverses the US states o Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, an Arkansas. The river's soorce basin lies in the wastren Unitit States in Colorado, specifically the Arkansas River Valley, whaur the heidwatters derive frae the snawpack in the Sawatch an Mosquito moontain ranges. It then flowes east intae the Midwast via Kansas, an finally intae the Sooth throu Oklahoma an Arkansas.