Its shape has been compared to "a long, pliant, apple-paring" and the first Europeans to see it originally called it the "Rio Grande." Its source, not identified until 1832, is named for the Latin for "true head."  Its greatest flood occurred in 1927, submerging 23,000 squar
Its shape has been compared to "a long, pliant, apple-paring" and the first Europeans to see it originally called it the "Rio Grande." Its source, not identified until 1832, is named for the Latin for "true head."  Its greatest flood occurred in 1927, submerging 23,000 square miles of land and killing 250 people; now, about a quarter of its sediment and water has been diverted to the Atchafalaya.  Emptying into the Gulf of Mexico principally via South Pass and Southwest Pass, Louisiana, FTP, what is this river whose name means "Father of the Waters", the longest in North America.
Its shape has been compared to "a long, pliant, apple-paring" and the first Europeans to see it originally called it the "Rio Grande."
Mississippi River