Arikaree River
| Arikaree River | |
| Arikara Fork Republican River, Ononio'he | |
 Arikaree River Valley at the location of the Battle of Beecher's Island near Wray, Colorado
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| Name origin: Arikaree for horn | |
| Country | United States |
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| State | Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska |
| Tributaries | |
| - left | North Fork Arikaree River - Black Wolf Creek |
| Source | |
| - location | Elbert County, Colorado |
| - elevation | 5,908 ft (1,801 m) |
| - coordinates | 39°22′36″N 103°46′44″W / 39.37667°N 103.77889°W |
| Mouth | Republican River |
| - location | Haigler, Nebraska |
| - elevation | 3,241 ft (988 m) |
| - coordinates | 40°01′13″N 101°56′17″W / 40.02028°N 101.93806°WCoordinates: 40°01′13″N 101°56′17″W / 40.02028°N 101.93806°W |
| Length | 156 mi (251 km) |
| Basin | 1,743 sq mi (4,514 km2) |
| Discharge | for USGS 06821500 at Haigler, NE |
| - average | 16.7 cu ft/s (0 m3/s) |
| - max | 17,000 cu ft/s (481 m3/s) |
| - min | 0 cu ft/s (0 m3/s) |
| Watersheds | Arikaree-Republican-Kansas- Missouri-Mississippi |
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The Arikaree River is a 156-mile-long (251 km)river in the central Great Plains of North America. A tributary of the Republican River, most of its length lies in the American state of Colorado. It is a designated areas within the Colorado Natural Areas Program to protect native and uncommon species that may be endangered or threatened.
The river is named after the indigenous Arikara people. The word "Arikaree" refers to "horn".
The source of the Arikaree River is in extreme eastern Elbert County, Colorado on the western edge of the High Plains region of the Great Plains. From there, the river flows generally northeast across the High Plains in eastern Colorado. It then crosses the extreme northwestern corner of Kansas before entering far southwestern Nebraska. At the town of Haigler, the Arikaree joins with the North Fork Republican River to form the Republican River.
The point where the Arikaree River flows out of Yuma County, Colorado and into Cheyenne County, Kansas, located at 39°58′41″N 102°03′06″W / 39.97806°N 102.05167°W, is the lowest point in Colorado at an elevation of 3,317 feet (1,011 m). It holds the distinction of being the highest low point of any U.S. state, higher than the highest points of 18 states and the District of Columbia.
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