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Place Name
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Sunflower River
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Place Status (Type)
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river
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Location
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Coahoma County, Mississippi (MS), United States, North America
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Latitude
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unknown
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Longitude
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unknown
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Sunflower River
or Big Sunflower River,
240 mi/386 km long, NW and W central Miss.;
rises in Moon L., oxbow lake, 1 mi/1.6 km E of
Mississippi R., in N Coahoma co.; flows S past Clarksdale, Sunflower,
and Indianola, to Yazoo R., 20 mi/32 km SW of
Yazoo city. Entire river is a bayou of Mississippi R., flows entirely
within Mississippi R. Flood Plain, roughly parallelling Mississippi.,
in one of its former channels, (up to
35 mi/56 km apart).
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