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Minam River 
Minam River near its confluence with the Wallowa RiverCountry United States State Oregon County Union and Wallowa Source Eagle Cap Wilderness - location Wallowa–Whitman National Forest, Union County - elevation 7,684 ft (2,342 m) [1] - coordinates 45°10′07″N 117°21′28″W / 45.16861°N 117.35778°W [2] Mouth Wallowa River - location Minam, Wallowa County - elevation 2,536 ft (773 m) [2] - coordinates 45°37′17″N 117°43′14″W / 45.62139°N 117.72056°W [2] Length 51 mi (82 km) [3] Basin 239 sq mi (619 km2) [4] 
Location of the mouth of the Minam River in OregonThe Minam River is a tributary of the Wallowa River, 51 miles (82 km) long,[3] in northeastern Oregon in the United States. It drains a rugged wilderness area of the Wallowa Mountains west of La Grande.
It rises in the Wallowas in the Eagle Cap Wilderness of the Wallowa–Whitman National Forest, just south of the Wallowa–Union border approximately 25 miles (40 km) southeast of La Grande at Blue Lake. It flows generally northwest through the mountains along the Wallowa–Union county line. It joins the Wallowa from the south at the community of Minam near Oregon Route 82.[5]
From its headwaters to the Eagle Cap Wilderness boundary downstream of Cougar Creek, a distance of 39 miles (63 km), the Minam River was declared part of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System in 1988. Accessible mainly by United States Forest Service trails, the river basin supports diverse wildlife, including wolverine, bighorn sheep, elk, American black bear, and cougar.[6]
point geolocation USGS map mouth at Wallowa River 45°37′17″N 117°43′14″W / 45.6212558°N 117.7204775°W Minam GNIS point 2, RM 10.1 45°30′00″N 117°41′07″W / 45.4998659°N 117.6851983°W Mount Moriah GNIS point 3 45°22′29″N 117°39′09″W / 45.3745864°N 117.6524241°W Mount Fanny GNIS point 4 45°20′51″N 117°37′34″W / 45.3473644°N 117.6260355°W Jim White Ridge GNIS point 5 45°15′00″N 117°31′46″W / 45.2498667°N 117.5293726°W China Cap GNIS point 6, RM 33.8 45°12′40″N 117°30′03″W / 45.2109803°N 117.5007613°W Steamboat Lake Blue Lake source RM 46 45°10′07″N 117°21′28″W / 45.1684853°N 117.3576877°W Eagle Cap See also
- List of longest streams of Oregon
- List of rivers of Oregon
- List of National Wild and Scenic Rivers
References
- ^ Source elevation derived from Google Earth search using GNIS source coordinates.
- ^ a b c "Minam River". Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). United States Geological Survey. November 28, 1980. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:1146303. Retrieved September 28, 2011.
- ^ a b "The National Map: National Hydrography Dataset". United States Geological Survey. http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/. Retrieved May 3, 2011.
- ^ "Minam River Spring Chinook Population" (PDF). Northwest Fisheries Science Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. p. 2. http://www.nwfsc.noaa.gov/trt/trt_documents/minam_chinook3_10_07.pdf. Retrieved August 17, 2010.
- ^ Oregon Atlas & Gazeteer. Freeport, Maine: DeLorme Mapping. 1991. p. 87. ISBN 0-89933-235-8.
- ^ "National Wild and Scenic Rivers: Minam River". United States Forest Service. August 18, 2011. http://www.rivers.gov/wsr-minam.html. Retrieved September 28, 2011.
External links
Categories:- Rivers of Oregon
- Wild and Scenic Rivers of the United States
- Landforms of Wallowa County, Oregon
- Landforms of Union County, Oregon
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