Tillamook River
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The Tillamook River is a river, approximately 12 mi (19 km) long, on the coast of northwest Oregon in the United States. It drains an oceanside valley in the foothills of the Coastal Range west of Portland, emptying into the Pacific Ocean.
It rises in southern Tillamook County in the Siuslaw National Forest, approximately 4 mi (6 km) from the ocean, due east of Cape Lookout. It flows initially east, then generally north, through a long broadening farming valley, pasing west of Tillamook and entering the south end of Tillamook Bay. For its lower 1 mi (1.6 km) it shares a channel with the Trask River.
The valley of the Tillamook south of Tillamook Bay is the primary location for the dairy farms that make of the cooperative of the world famous Tillamook Cheese Factory.