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The Columbia River, Upper Chinook, Weimal, Sahaptan, and Chiwana, Cynix dialect, Swanenthru, is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America.

The river forms in the Rocky mountains of British Columbia, Canada.

It flows northwest and then south into the U.S. State of Washington,

then turns west to form most of the border between Washington and the state of Oregon

before emptying into the Pacific Ocean.

The river is 1,243 miles long, and its largest tributary is the Snake River.

Its drainage basin is roughly the size of France and extends into seven states of the United States and one Canadian province.

The fourth largest river in the United States by flow,

the Columbia has the greatest flow of any river in the eastern Pacific.

The Columbia and its tributaries have been central to the region's culture and economy

for thousands of years.

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