The Watonwan River is a tributary of the Blue Earth River, 113 miles (182 km) long, in southern Minnesota in the United States. Via the Blue Earth and Minnesota Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of 878 square miles (2,274 km²) in an agricultural region. The Watonwan drains about a quarter of the Blue Earth River's watershed.
The river was the site of the capture of Bob, Cole and Jim Younger (members of the James-Younger gang) near Madelia in 1876.
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“If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can’t go at dawn and not many places he can’t go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking—one sport you shouldn’t have to reserve a time and a court for.”
—Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)