Kaskaskia River
The Kaskaskia River is a tributary of the Mississippi River, approximately 325 miles long, in central and southern Illinois in the United States. The second largest river system within Illinois, it drains a rural area of farms, as well as rolling hills along river bottoms of hardwood forests.
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Illinois, United States
- Also known as: “Kaskaskias River”, “Okaw River”, “Rarcon River”, “Rio Kaskaskia”, “río Okaw”, “río Rarcon”, “río Skaskias”, and “skaskias River”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Fort Kaskaskia State Historic Site.
Fort Kaskaskia State Historic Site
Park
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kaskaskia and Ste. Genevieve.
Kaskaskia
Village
Ste. Genevieve
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Kaskaskia River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Randolph, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.97494° or 37° 58′ 30″ north
Longitude
-89.93737° or 89° 56′ 15″ west
Elevation
361 feet (110 metres)
Open location code
869GX3F7+X3
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Kaskaskia River” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر كاساسكيا”
- Asturian: “Ríu Kaskaskia”
- Bulgarian: “Каскаския (река)”
- Bulgarian: “Каскаския”
- Catalan: “Kaskaskia”
- Catalan: “Riu Kaskaskia”
- Cebuano: “Kaskaskia River”
- Chinese: “卡斯卡斯基亞河”
- Danish: “Kaskaskia River”
- Dutch: “Kaskaskia River”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر كاسكاسكيا”
- French: “Kaskaskia”
- French: “rivière Kaskaskia”
- Georgian: “კასკასკია”
- German: “Kaskaskia River”
- Hebrew: “קאסקאסקיאה”
- Irish: “Abhainn Kaskaskia”
- Japanese: “カスカスキア川”
- Mingrelian: “კასკასკია”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kaskaskia”
- Norwegian: “Kaskaskia River”
- Norwegian: “Kaskaskia”
- Polish: “Kaskaskia River”
- Russian: “Каскаския”
- Spanish: “río Kaskaskia”
- Spanish: “Río Kaskaskia”
- Venetian: “Kaskaskia”
- Welsh: “Afon Kaskaskia”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Reily Lake and Roth Island.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Kaskaskia Lock and Dam and Beaver Island.
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Worth a closer look: Chicago and Springfield.
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