Columbia River
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in North America; flows from British Columbia, through Washington, and along the Washington-Oregon border to the Pacific Ocean
- Also known as: “Oregon River”, “Ouragon”, and “River of the West”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cape Disappointment Light and Coast Guard Station Cape Disappointment.
Cape Disappointment Light
Lighthouse
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The Cape Disappointment Light is a lighthouse on Cape Disappointment near the mouth of the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington. Cape Disappointment Light is situated 2 miles north of Columbia River.
Coast Guard Station Cape Disappointment
Military installation
United States Coast Guard Station Cape Disappointment, situated near Cape Disappointment, Washington, at the mouth of the Columbia River, is the largest United States Coast Guard search and rescue station on the Northwest Coast, with 50 crewmembers assigned. Coast Guard Station Cape Disappointment is situated 2½ miles north of Columbia River.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ilwaco and Chinook.
Ilwaco
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Ilwaco is a city of about 1000 people in southwestern Washington State. It is on Baker Bay, at the mouth of the Wallacut and Chinook Rivers, behind Cape Disappointment.
Chinook
Village
Chinook is a census-designated place in Pacific County, Washington, United States. The population was 457 at the 2020 census. Chinook is situated 6 miles east of Columbia River.
Columbia River
- Categories: river, main stem, and body of water
- Location: Clatsop, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Columbia River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Columbiarivier”
- Arabic: “نهر كولومبيا”
- Armenian: “Կոլումբիա”
- Asturian: “Ríu Columbia”
- Bashkir: “Колумбия”
- Basque: “Columbia ibaia”
- Basque: “Columbia”
- Belarusian: “Калумбія”
- Belarusian: “рака Калумбія”
- Bengali: “কলাম্বিয়া নদী”
- Bhojpuri: “कोलंबिया नदी”
- Breton: “Columbia”
- Bulgarian: “Колумбия”
- Catalan: “Columbia”
- Catalan: “Colúmbia”
- Catalan: “el Colúmbia”
- Catalan: “riu Colúmbia”
- Catalan: “Riu Colúmbia”
- Cebuano: “Columbia River”
- Chinese: “哥伦比亚河”
- Chinese: “哥倫比亞河”
- Chuvash: “Колумби”
- Croatian: “Columbia”
- Czech: “Columbia”
- Danish: “Columbia River”
- Dutch: “Columbia”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر كولومبيا”
- Esperanto: “Kolumbio”
- Estonian: “Columbia jõgi”
- Fiji Hindi: “Columbia Naddi”
- Finnish: “Columbia”
- French: “Columbia”
- French: “fleuve Columbia”
- Galician: “Río Columbia”
- Georgian: “კოლუმბია”
- German: “Columbia River”
- Greek: “Κολούμπια ποταμός”
- Greek: “Κολούμπια”
- Greek: “ποταμός Κολούμπια”
- Hebrew: “קולומביה”
- Hindi: “कोलंबिया नदी”
- Hindi: “कोलम्बिया नदी”
- Hungarian: “Columbia”
- Icelandic: “Columbia-fljót”
- Ido: “Fluvio Columbia”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Columbia”
- Irish: “Abhainn Columbia”
- Italian: “Columbia”
- Japanese: “コロンビア川”
- Kazakh: “Колумбия өзені”
- Kirghiz: “Колумбия дарыясы”
- Korean: “컬럼비아강”
- Latin: “Columbia”
- Latvian: “Kolumbija”
- Lithuanian: “Kolumbija”
- Macedonian: “Колумбија”
- Malay: “Sungai Columbia”
- Malayalam: “കൊളംബിയ നദി”
- Malayalam: “കൊളമ്പിയ നദി”
- Marathi: “कोलंबिया नदी”
- Mazanderani: “کلمبیا درکا”
- Mingrelian: “კოლუმბია (წყარმალუ)”
- Mingrelian: “კოლუმბია”
- Mongolian: “Колумб мөрөн”
- Mongolian: “Колумби мөрөн”
- Northern Frisian: “Columbia River”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Columbia River”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Columbia”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Columbiaelva”
- Norwegian: “Columbia River”
- Nyanja: “Mtsinje wa Columbia”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Colómbia (flume)”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Colómbia”
- Ossetian: “Колумби (цæугæдон)”
- Ossetian: “Колумби”
- Panjabi: “ਕੋਲੰਬੀਆ ਨਦੀ”
- Persian: “رود کلمبیا”
- Persian: “رودخانه کلمبیا”
- Piemontese: “Columbia”
- Polish: “Kolumbia”
- Portuguese: “Rio Columbia”
- Romanian: “Columbia”
- Romanian: “râul Columbia”
- Russian: “Колумбия”
- Scots: “Columbia River”
- Serbian: “Kolumbija”
- Serbian: “Колумбија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Columbia”
- Slovak: “Columbia”
- Slovenian: “Kolumbija”
- South Azerbaijani: “کولمبیا چایی”
- Spanish: “Rio Columbia”
- Spanish: “Río Columbia”
- Swahili: “Mto Columbia”
- Swedish: “Columbiafloden”
- Tamil: “கொலம்பியா ஆறு”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำโคลัมเบีย”
- Turkish: “Kolumbiya Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Колумбія”
- Urdu: “کولمبیا دریا”
- Uzbek: “Kolumbiya (daryo)”
- Uzbek: “Kolumbiya”
- Venetian: “Columbia”
- Venetian: “Fiume Columbia”
- Vietnamese: “sông Columbia”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Columbia”
- Waray (Philippines): “Salog Columbia”
- Welsh: “Afon Columbia”
- Western Frisian: “Kolumbia”
- Western Panjabi: “دریائے کولمبیا”
- Western Panjabi: “کولمبیا دریا”
- Wu Chinese: “哥伦比亚河”
- Yue Chinese: “哥倫比亞河”
- “कोलंबिया नदी”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Sand Island Range and Cape Disappointment.
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