well this is how many square miles the Mississippi river has... 88655439.
at least thats what this says.
The Colorado River watershed covers an area of 246,000 square miles.
No one knows, apparently.
Colorado River 1,450 miles Mississippi river 2,340 miles
The source of the Mississippi river is Lake Itasca. This is a small glacial lake which measures about 1.8 square miles.
The Missouri River is 2,341 miles long and is the longest tributary to the Mississippi River.
Colorado River 1,450 miles Mississippi river 2,340 miles
Mississippi has a total of 48,430 square miles.
The term watershed is used to describe a smaller area of land that drains to a stream, lake or wetland. Many watersheds can reside within a large river basin.
It's literally a ridge of high land dividing two areas that are drained by different river systems; figuratively, it means a turning point -- a moment in time that involves a decision or event that changes the course of the past and leads someplace else. In river parlance, it generally means the entire area of land which is drained by a given river. For example, the Mississippi River watershed ranges from the Continental Divide in the Rocky Mountains of the west to the Appalachian Mountains in the east and from the state of Minnesota southward to the Gulf of Mexico. It covers an area of approximately 1.15 million square miles. See the related link below for a map of the Mississippi watershed.
48,434 sq mi. P.S. what physics got to do with it?
The Missouri River is 2,341 miles long and is the longest tributary to the Mississippi River.
No, the the Mississippi is 2,320 miles long and the Colorado River is 1,450 miles.