Kansas River

Catchment area of ​​the Kansas River

The Kansas River (or Kaw ) is a 274 km long right tributary of the Missouri River in the northeast of the U.S. state of Kansas. It was named after the people of the Kaw, which once lived on its banks.

The river begins at the confluence of the Republican River ( 679 km long) and Smoky Hill River ( 900 km ) near Junction City. It flows through the capital of Kansas, Topeka, east, then to open on the eastern frontier near Kansas City in the Missouri River.

Among his most important tributaries of the Big Blue River and the Solomon River belongs.