Marais des Cygnes River

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The Marais des Cygnes River is a tributary of the Osage River in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Kansas and western Missouri in the United States. Through the Osage River and the Missouri River, he belongs to the river system of the Mississippi River.

Etymology

The name of the Marais des Cygnes comes from the French word meaning march of the swans. It probably derives from the widespread in the region trumpeter swan.

Geography

The river is formed from the Elm Creek and the Hundred Forty Two Mile Creek north of Reading in Kansas. It flows southwest through the Marais des Cygnes National Wildlife Refuge in Missouri and finally ends at the Little Osage River and goes about it in the Osage River.

In Osage County, the river to the Melvern Lake at Eisenhower State Park is dammed.

• River Missouri River system
• River in North America
• River in Kansas
• River in Missouri