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Canadian River

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Canadian River, river that rises in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, northeastern New Mexico, U.S., and flows southward across the Las Vegas Plains, cutting a gorge nearly 1,500 feet (450 m) deep in the Canadian escarpment before turning eastward. It continues through the Texas Panhandle in a deep, narrow valley cut into reddish sandstones, the walls of which are known locally as the “breaks,” and flows eastward through the Antelope Hills in Oklahoma, past Oklahoma City, to join the Arkansas River 27 miles (47 km) southeast of Muskogee, at the western edge of the Boston Mountains. Through most of its ...(100 of 267 words)

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