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Robert A. Muller
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Professor of Geography and Anthropology; Director, Southern Regional Climate Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. Coauthor of Physical Geography Today and others.

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Map of the United States showing the Mississippi River and its major tributaries flowing south from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico. A shaded area marks the Mississippi River basin, and New Orleans is labeled near the river's mouth.
Mississippi River, the longest river of North America, draining with its major tributaries an area of approximately 1.2 million square miles (3.1 million square km), or about one-eighth of the entire continent. The Mississippi River lies entirely within the United States. Rising in Lake Itasca in…
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