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| name               = Red River
| name_native        = Bah'hatteno<ref>[[Caddo language|Caddo]] name. Meredith, Howard. [http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/C/CA003.html "Caddo (Kadohadacho)."] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100719220154/http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/C/CA003.html |date=2010-07-19 }} ''Oklahoma Historical Society's Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture.'' Retrieved 9 Sept 2012)</ref>
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| name_other         = Rivière Rouge (former French name), Río Colorado (former Spanish name)
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| image_size         = 280px
| image_caption      = Red River looking east, north of [[Bonham, Texas]]:
Texas is to the right, Oklahoma is on the left, and the border between the two states runs along the south (right) bank of the river.
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| map_size           = 280
| map_caption        = Map of the Red River watershed
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| subdivision_type1  = Country
| subdivision_name1  = [[United States]]
| subdivision_type2  = States
| subdivision_name2  = [[Texas]], [[Oklahoma]], [[Arkansas]] and [[Louisiana]]
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| source1_location   = [[Harmon County, Oklahoma]]
| source1_coordinates= {{coord|34|34|35|N|99|57|54|W}}
| source1_elevation  = {{convert|1,535|ft|abbr=on}}
| mouth_location     = [[Atchafalaya River]]
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The '''Red River''' is a [[tributary]] of the [[Mississippi River]]. It begins in [[Texas]], and flows through the states of [[Oklahoma]], [[Arkansas]], and [[Louisiana]]. It merges with the Mississippi River in Louisiana. The river's name comes from the red [[clay]] that is found along it. The Red is about {{convert|1320|mi|km|abbr=on}} long. 

The biggest [[dam]] on the Red River is [[Denison Dam]], which was created in 1943. It forms [[Lake Texoma]]. This lake covers 89,000 [[acre]]s (360 square [[kilometer]]s). There are also some other dams on the river's [[tributaries]]. At its end at the Mississippi River, it has a flow of 7,000 cubic feet (200 cubic meters) of water every second. In early 2009, the river experienced a series of catastrophic [[flood]]s.

== References ==
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*Tyson, Carl N. ''The Red River in Southwestern History''. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1981. {{ISBN|0-8061-1659-5}}

[[Category:Rivers of Texas]]
[[Category:Rivers of Oklahoma]]
[[Category:Rivers of Arkansas]]
[[Category:Rivers of Louisiana]]