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Federated state of the northwestern USA, 251,419 km², 3,700,758
residents (2006 estimate), 15 inhabitants / km²,
capital: Salem. Borders: Washington (N), Idaho (E), Nevada and California (S), Pacific
ocean (W).
State Overview
In the territory of Oregon, divided into two unequal parts by the Cascate
chain, close to the narrow flat or gently undulating coastal selvedge, the hilly
heights of the Coastal chain rise, to which, in E, a long and deep depression
runs short taken from the Columbia River and largely from the Willamette River,
its left tributary. This valley, of tectonic origin, is closed E by the Cascate
chain (Mount Hood, 3427 m), which is aligned almost parallel to the Coastal
Chain, with which it tends to merge in the southern sector of the state. The
high lands E of the Cascate chain are part of the Great Basin or the Columbia
plateau, mainly areic or endorheic, especially in the central and southern
sectors of the state, where there are several landlocked lake basins, such as
the Upper Klamath, Summer, Albert and Malheur lakes. In the state, the Columbia
Plateau is crossed by mountain ranges such as the Blue Mountains and the Wallowa
Mountains, and is crossed by the Deschutes and John Day rivers (tributaries of
Columbia), Malheur and Owyhee (tributaries of the Snake). The climate is
temperate W of the Cascate chain, with abundant rainfall, while E of the chain
is continental, with strong temperature ranges and low rainfall. Economic
resources are agriculture (cereals, potatoes, vegetables, fruit, flax), breeding
(cattle, sheep, pigs), fishing, forestry and subsoil exploitation (titanium,
zirconium, nickel); the industries (food, paper, wood, mechanical, textile,
rubber, petrochemical, building materials and electronics), favored by the
availability of hydroelectric energy, are active in the capital and in the
cities of Portland, Eugene, Corvallis, Medford, Springfield, Beaverton and
Albany. Tourism.
History
Originally disputed between the United States, Great Britain, Spain and
Russia, the territory of Oregon was the subject of a series of international
agreements that recognized the rights of the USA on it: in 1818, with the
agreement for the definition of the borders between Canada and USA in the Great
Lakes and Rocky Mountains area; in 1819, with the agreement between Spain and
the USA on the territories north of the 42nd parallel; finally in 1824, with
Russia's commitment not to set up settlements south of the parallel 54º 40´. The
Oregon issue was definitively settled with the Anglo-American treaty of 1846,
which divided the territory along the 49th parallel. Inhabited initially by fur
traders, the first American settlement in the area was the Astoria station,
founded in 1811 by JJ Astor at the mouth of the Columbia River. But its actual
colonization began in 1834 with the foundation of Methodist missions. Organized
in the Territory in 1848, it underwent minor territorial changes (1853,
constitution of the Washington Territory obtained from its northern section) and
became a State in 1859.
Salem (Oregon)
City (125,566 residents in 1996) and capital of the State of Oregon (USA),
50 m on the Willamette River, 80 km SSW of Portland. Active agricultural market
(cereals, fruit), it is home to the food, textile, wood, paper and mechanical
industries. University. Airport.
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