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The Sunflower River (also known as the Big Sunflower River) is one of the main tributaries of the Yazoo River in the U.S. state of Mississippi. The Sunflower River is cut off at its confluence with the Yazoo River from any navigation by the Steel Bayou Control Structure. It springs out of the bayous, lakes & springs of Coahoma County, Mississippi near the Mississippi River  and flows south for 225 miles to the Yazoo River. It is a very muddy river. In its journey South it flows through Clarksdale, Hopson Plantation, Mound Bayou,  Indianola and  Anguilla and flows near Rolling Fork, the birthplace of Muddy Waters. At Clarksdale on its banks, the annual Sunflower River Blues and Gospel festival is held.

The United States Army Corps of Engineers maintains a navigation channel, thirty miles in length. Built in 1976, the channel is used by barges and pleasure craft.

According to the USGS variant names include Hushpuckaman Creek.

Water Quality
Like the Yazoo, this river is heavily silt laden. The river gets its mud from the bayous and small streams that feed it. The river has a distinct "Clear-Mud Line" where it meets the Yazoo, showing that the Big Sunflower is muddier than the Yazoo.