BEND, a city in the central part of Oregon, U.S.A., on the Deschutes river, 130m. S.E. of Portland; the county seat of Deschutes county. It is on Federal highway 97, and is served by the Spokane, Portland and Seattle and the Union Pacific railways. The population was S36 in 191o; 5,415 in 192o; and in 193o was 8,848 by the Federal census. Bend is the shipping and trading centre of a lumbering region and an irrigated district which pro duces wool, poultry, dairy and beef-cattle, as well as hay, alsike clover seed and other crops. It has lumber-mills and box fac tories, a creamery, iron foundries and machine shops, brick and tile yards. There are interesting caves in the vicinity, one of which formerly supplied the city with ice. Popular lake resorts in the Cascades are easily accessible, and 125m. S. is the eastern entrance to the Crater national park.