Red River

Red River, a name given to many streams, the most noteworthy of which are: - (1) The Hoang-Kiang or Songcoi in Tonkin. (2) The Natchitoches, which rises in Texas and, after a course of 2,100 miles, being navigable throughout more than half of its length, debouches into the Mississippi. (3) Red River of the North, rising in Elbow Lake near the sources of the Mississippi, and, after a course of 565 miles, emptying itself into Lake Winnipeg.