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Willapa River

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- elevation
  
0 ft (0 m)

- min
  
14 cu ft/s (0.4 m/s)

Length
  
32 km

Mouth
  
Willapa Bay

- average
  
636 cu ft/s (18.0 m/s)

Discharge
  
18.01 m³/s

Source
  
Willapa Hills

Country
  
United States of America


- max
  
12,800 cu ft/s (362.5 m/s)

Slope soaring willapa river south bend


The Willapa River is a river on the Pacific coast of southwestern Washington in the United States, approximately 20 miles (32 km) long. It drains an area of low hills and a coastal plain into Willapa Bay, a large estuary north of the mouth of the Columbia River.

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Map of Willapa River, Washington, USA

The river rises in the Willapa Hills in southeastern Pacific County, approximately 25 miles (40 km) west of Chehalis. It flows northwest in a winding course past the small communities of Willapa and Raymond. It enters the northwest end of Willapa Bay at South Bend.

78 seconds on the willapa river


NameEdit

The name is that of the Willapa people, an Athapaskan-speaking people, now extinct, who occupied the valley of the river and also the prairies between the headwaters of the Chehalis and Cowlitz Rivers. River has miocene fossils.

References

Willapa River Wikipedia