Historical exploration mostly. It’s very often referred to as the Mississippi-Missouri River in a general context
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Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
How do they determine the beginning of a river? Should it be the furthest point of something? Why isn’t the Missouri River the “Mississippi” and the remaining portion of the Mississippi north of that junction the Missouri instead?
jambudz@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
DeadDigger@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
In Europe you often have either 2 rivers forming a new one or the bigger one eats the smaller one