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The largest river by discharge flowing into the Pacific from North America, rising in the Canadian Rockies and flowing roughly 2,000 kilometers through British Columbia and the northwestern United States to the ocean. Its extensively dammed course generates a substantial share of the region's hydroelectric power.

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