Oregon: 150 Years in 2009. (eighth)
track record in a State. ... Confidential!
-Introduction-
S il'on evokes the name of Simpson, the company Nike, the psychedelic-pop band the Dandy Warhols or the fantastic cult film The Shining Stanley Kubrick it's a safe bet that few will see a common point. And yet it is at least one: the State of Oregon on the west coast of the United States. This year 2009 is the year of its 150th anniversary! Once part of French possessions in Canada, Oregon was Longtai 
mps being contested between the English and Americans. It is that in 1848 a treaty will finalize the boundary between the two powers. What was north of the 49th latitude north belongs to the English and the party would return to the South Americans. The area falling in the United States was erected in the Territory in 1850 and then state from 1859. Contained by California and Nevada in the South, Idaho to the east, the State of Washington to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the west, Oregon is certainly not the state's most publicized of the "States". It's strange and ultimately very unfair! Eight times larger than Belgium but also three times less populated (3.5 people) Oregon State is yet whose physical characteristics are of striking diversity. The term may sound hackneyed, but what about a country that holds over an area of slightly less than 250,000 km2 one of the highest peaks in North America (Mount Hood, 3426 meters), its largest lake deep (Crater Lake, 594 meters), one of his most powerful rivers (the Columbia River 
, 1954 km) with a rate exceeding that of the Mississippi some years! Say that even a country which juxtapose climates called "Breton" (humid temperate) of other desert, not to mention ending the impenetrable forests on the edge of the ocean, the rolling countryside and green, these beaches are among the best preserved and most wild West Coast or the snow-capped peaks of twelve months a year where fans can indulge in the joys of snow. 
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