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The Medicine Bow River is a 167-mile-long (269 km)[1] tributary of the North Platte River, in southern Wyoming in the United States.

Medicine Bow River
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Snowy Range, Carbon County, Wyoming
Mouth
• location	Seminoe Reservoir, Carbon County, Wyoming
• elevation	6,360 feet (1,940 m)
Length	167 miles (269 km)
Basin size	2,338 square miles (6,060 km2)

Description

It rises in the Snowy Range, flowing out of the North Gap Lake, in southeastern Carbon County. It flows north, past Elk Mountain, then northeast, then northwest past the town of Medicine Bow and between the Shirley Mountains to the north and the Medicine Bow Mountains to the south. Near the town of Medicine Bow the Medicine Bow River is joined by its two largest tributaries, Rock Creek and the Little Medicine Bow River. It joins the North Platte in the Seminoe Reservoir, with the lower 10 miles (16 km) of the river forming an arm of the reservoir.

Discharge statistics

This section does not cite any sources. (March 2011)

Statistic	Time period	Discharge
Yearly mean discharge	year	176cf/s
Month with highest mean discharge	June	648cf/s
Month with lowest mean discharge	January	32.2cf/s

See also

• List of Wyoming rivers

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Medicine Bow River.

• U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Medicine Bow River

На других языках

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- [en] Medicine Bow River

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[es] Río Medicine Bow

El río Medicine Bow (en inglés: Medicine Bow River) es un río del Oeste de Estados Unidos, uno de los principales afluentes del río Platte Norte. Tiene una longitud aproximada de unos 314 km.

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