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Map of the Snake River watershed. Native name: ... Fifty-four named tributaries of the Snake River drain more than 100 square miles (260 km 2). [1]
The Owyhee River enters the Snake River from the west on the Oregon–Idaho border approximately 5 miles (8 km) south of Nyssa, Oregon, and 2 miles (3 km) south of the mouth of the Boise River. The final stretch of the river, below Owyhee Dam, emerges from the Owyhee Plateau and enters the Snake River Plain.
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The Bonneville flood had catastrophic effects along the Snake River in what is now Idaho, but the influence of the flood can also be detected within the lake basin where a distinctive layer of sediment was deposited. The Bonneville flood bed can be identified in many surface exposures below the Provo shoreline and in sediment cores. [27]
Map of Pleistocene lakes in the Western US, showing the path of the Bonneville Flood along the Snake River. The Bonneville flood was a catastrophic flooding event in the last ice age, which involved massive amounts of water inundating parts of southern Idaho and eastern Washington along the course of the Snake River.
By average discharge, the Clearwater River is the largest tributary of the Snake River. The River got its name for the Niimiipuutímt naming as Koos-Koos-Kia - "clear water". [3] The drainage basin of the Clearwater River is 9,645 square miles (24,980 km 2). Its mean annual discharge is 15,300 cubic feet per second (430 m 3 /s) [4]
The Little Lost River's drainage basin is approximately 971 square miles (2,515 km 2) in area [2] Its mean annual discharge, as measured by USGS gage 13118700 (Little Lost River below Wet Creek, near Howe, Idaho), is 65 cubic feet per second (1.8 m 3 /s), with a maximum daily recorded flow of 486 cu ft/s (14 m 3 /s), and a minimum of 3 cu ft/s ...
These geographic areas contain either the drainage area of a major river, or the combined drainage areas of a series of rivers. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Pacific Northwest region, which is listed with a 2-digit hydrologic unit code (HUC) of 17, has an approximate size of 302,334 square miles (783,040 square kilometers ), and consists of 12 subregions ...