Pasco

Pasco
/pas"koh/, n.
a city in S Washington, on the Columbia River. 17,944.

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      city, seat (1889) of Franklin county, southeastern Washington, U.S., situated at the confluence of the Snake and Columbia rivers, opposite Kennewick and immediately southeast of Richland. Established on the site of a prehistoric Indian village in 1880, when the Northern Pacific Railway (Northern Pacific Railway Company) (now Burlington Northern Sante Fe) reached that point, it was named by a railroad surveyor for Cerro de Pasco, Peru, where he had previously worked. The largest city in the Columbia Basin Irrigation Project, Pasco is a busy river port, as well as a rail centre. The Ice Harbor Dam, 13 miles (21 km) up the Snake River, impounds Lake Sacajawea and is the first of four dams that permit navigation to Lewiston, Idaho, which lies 140 miles [225 km] east. Pasco is the seat of Columbia Basin College (1955). Inc. 1891. Pop. (1990) city, 20,337; Richland-Kennewick-Pasco MSA, 150,033; (2000) city, 32,066; Richland-Kennewick-Pasco MSA, 191,822.

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