Lac qui Parle River
Lac qui Parle River location of the catchment area of the Minnesota River
Lac qui Parle River in Lac qui Parle Township (2007)
Lac qui Parle River in Lac qui Parle Township (2007)
The Lac qui Parle River is a 190- km long tributary of the Minnesota River in southwest Minnesota in the United States.
A number of tributaries of the river also extend to the east of the neighboring South Dakota, including the largest of them, the Lac qui Parle West Branch River, also flows through the eastern South Dakota. About the Lac qui Parle River is the Minnesota River is part of the catchment area of the Mississippi River and drains an area of 2994 km ² in an agricultural region. Slightly more than two thirds of the catchment area are within the State of Minnesota. Lac qui parle in French means " the lake which speaks ". This was a translation of the Sioux name for the Lac qui Parle, a lake, which lies above the mouth of the Lac qui Parle River in the Minnesota River.
The origin of the river is located in the Lake Hendricks on the border between the counties of Lincoln and Brookings. He leaves the lake in Hendricks and flows as a non-permanent watercourse northwestward through the Lincoln County on the Coteau des Prairies, a moraine that separates the basins of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Rivers each other. From there it flows to the west of the Yellow Medicine County, where he leaves the Coteau and loses by 76 m in height within 13 km. The river continues on his way to the northwest by a flat moränige level. In this area, willows and poplars grow on its banks. The river then enters the Lac qui Parle County east of where it flows past the east at Dawson. Below the Lac qui Parle in Lac qui Parle State Park flows into the river in the Minnesota River, about 15 km northwest of Montevideo, after passing through a forested valley, during which he had descended within 29 km around 64 m.
The largest tributary is the 89 km long West Branch Lac qui Parle River, which rises on the Coteau in eastern Deuel County, South Dakota, and initially northeastward flows, while Gary happened and then flows to the east of Dawson passed by the Lac qui Parle County. Among the other tributaries of the 39 kms long Canby Creek, the north-east on the Coteau flows through the west of the Yellow Medicine County and the town of Canby, and Tenmile Creek, the 53 km long running in an easterly and northerly direction through the Lac qui Parle County leads to the place Boyd.
According to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, 79% of the land area of the catchment area of 2088 km ² are in Minnesota used for agriculture, primarily through the cultivation of corn and soybeans.
Runoff
At the level of the United States Geological Survey in the vicinity of the Lac qui Parle community was 1910-2005 long-term average amount of water of the River four m³ / s The highest value was recorded with 484 m³ / s on 10 April 1969, the lowest value zero m³ / s occurred during dry periods of several years.