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Portland, Oregon (about 110 miles from the mouth), and Vancouver, Washington (100 miles ), are the upper limit of oceangoing navigation, aided by a dredged channel. Tides flow upriver for 140 miles (225 km). Shortly below the confluence with the Snake River, its largest tributary, the Columbia turns west and continues 300 miles (480 km) to the ocean as the boundary between Oregon and Washington in this last stretch the river has carved the spectacular Columbia River Gorge through the Cascade Range. The scablands were formed as immense torrents of water, released intermittently from ice-dammed lakes upstream, swept down-valley.

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The ice sheets were instrumental in creating the Channelled Scablands, a series of coulees (steep-walled ravines) trending northeast-southwest in the northern part of the Columbia Plateau Grand Coulee is the largest of these. It traverses east-central Washington in a sweeping curve known as the Big Bend, its prehistoric course having been disarranged first by lava flows and later by ice sheets. It then flows to the south for 270 miles (435 km) to the border of Canada and the United States (elevation 1,290 feet ), where it enters northeastern Washington. For the first 190 miles (305 km), its course is northwesterly. The Columbia flows from its source in Columbia Lake, at an elevation of 2,700 feet (820 metres), in British Columbia near the crest of the Rocky Mountains, to the Pacific Ocean at Astoria, Oregon.

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