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The Arkansas has three distinct characters in its long path through central North America. At its headwaters the Arkansas runs as a steep mountain torrent through the Rockies, dropping 4600 feet (1.4 km) in 120 miles (193 km). At Cañon City, Colorado, it leaves the mountains and enters Royal Gorge. For most of its length through the rest of Colorado and Kansas, it is a typical prairie river, with wide shallow banks, subject to some flooding. Through Oklahoma and Arkansas, the river deepens and builds once again into a navigable body of water somewhere between Fort Smith, Arkansas and Pine Bluff, according to the season. From this point to its mouth the Arkansas sees commercial barge traffic and some passenger and recreational use. The Kerr/McClellan Navigational Channel begins at Catoosa, Oklahoma and run via an extensive Lock and Dam system to the Mississippi.
Important cities on the Arkansas include Wichita, Kansas; Tulsa, OklahomaTulsa is the second-largest city in Oklahoma. As of the revised 2003 census report, the city had a total population of 387,807. It is the county seat of Tulsa County 6. History Tulsa began as a settlement of Creek Indians during the migration of tribes fr; and Little Rock, ArkansasThere is also a Littlerock, California''. Little Rock is a city located in Pulaski County, Arkansas. It is the capital of the U. state of Arkansas and the county seat. Little Rock is named after a boulder located on the bank of the Arkansas River called l.
Many nations of Native Americans lived near or along the Arkansas in its 1450 mile (2334 km) stretch, but the first Europeans to see the river were members of the CoronadoFrancisco Vasquez de Coronado (ca. 1510- 1554) was a Spanish conquistador, who in 1540- 1542 visited New Mexico and other parts of the southwest of what is now the United States. He was born in Salamanca. Coronado was governor of New Galicia (contemporary expedition on June 29June 29 is the 180th day of the year (181st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 185 days remaining. Events 1613 The Globe Theatre burns to the ground. 1749 New Governor, Charles de la Raliere Des Herbiers, arrives at Isle Royale ( Cape Breton I, 1541Events The first official translation of the entire Bible in Swedish February 12 Pedro de Valdivia founds Santiago de Chile. May 8 Hernando de Soto reaches the Mississippi River naming it Rio de Espiritu Santo. May 23 Jacques Cartier departs Saint-Malo Fr. Also in the 1540sCenturies: 15th century 16th century 17th century Decades: 1490s 1500s 1510s 1520s 1530s 1540s 1550s 1560s 1570s 1580s 1590s Years: 1540 1541 1542 1543 1544 1545 1546 1547 1548 1549 Events and Trends 1541 Hernando de Soto is the first European to see the Hernando de SotoHernando de Soto ( 1496 or 1500, Jerez de los Caballeros, Extremadura 21 May 1542, probably on the Mississippi river, some distance downstream from Memphis, Tennessee) was a Spanish navigator and conquistador. He participated at the conquest of Panama, Ni discovered the junction of the Arkansas with the Mississippi. The name "Arkansas" was first applied by Father Jacques Marquette, who called the river Akansa in his journal of 1673.
From 1819 the Adams-Onís Treaty set the Arkansas as part of the frontier between the United States and Spanish Mexico, which it remained until the annexation of Texas and Mexican-American War in 1846. Later, the Santa Fe Trail followed the Arkansas through much of Kansas.