Caribou River (Minnesota)

The Caribou River is a 15.0-mile-long (24.1 km)[1] river in northern Minnesota, the United States. It rises in a swamp about .6 miles (1 km) south of Morris Lake and two miles (3.2 km) east of Echo Lake, near the Lake/Cook County line, at an altitude about 1620 feet (494 m) above sea level. It descends some 1,020 (311 m.) feet in elevation as it flows south to its mouth at Lake Superior, also near the eastern border of Lake County.

For other places with the same name, see Caribou River.
Caribou River
Looking upstream from the Superior Hiking Trail
Location
CountryUnited States
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationLake County, Minnesota
 • coordinates47.5882362°N 91.0243162°W / 47.5882362; -91.0243162

See also

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-04-05 at WebCite, accessed May 7, 2012
  2. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Caribou River


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