Calapooia River Flow
by Nick Boren
Title
Calapooia River Flow
Artist
Nick Boren
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Photograph - Nikon Photography
Description
The Calapooia River is a tributary formed by run off from mountain snows. It travels westerly to the Willamette River, and from the Willamette River it then flows to the mighty Columbia River. The Columbia River then in turn flows to the Pacific Ocean.
The name of the river comes from a local Native American Indian tribe.
From Wikipedia:
The Calapooia River is an 80-mile (130 km) tributary of the Willamette River in the U.S. state of Oregon.[4]
The Calapooia flows generally northwest from its source in the Cascade Range near Tidbits Mountain. In its upper reaches, it passes through parts of the Willamette National Forest. Further downstream, it flows through Holley then Crawfordsville and Brownsville in the Willamette Valley before joining the Willamette at Albany. The city of Tangent is also near the river on a branch of one of its downstream tributaries, Lake Creek. The confluence of the two rivers is about 120 miles (190 km) by water from where the Willamette joins the Columbia River[5]
The Calapooia was named for the Kalapuya (also spelled Calapooia), a tribe of Native Americans.[2]
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March 16th, 2023
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