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Columbia River
Columbia River Gorge, Oregon-Washington border.
The Columbia River has a total length of approximately 1,240 miles (2,000 km). Of this distance, about 500 miles (800 km) of the river's course is located in Canada, extending from its headwaters in British Columbia to the border of the United States.1