Key facts
- Country
- United States
- Source
- Tallapoosa and Coosa Rivers
- Location
- Wetumpka, Alabama
- Coordinates
- 32°29′10″N 86°16′43″W / 32.4861°N 86.2786°W / 32.4861; -86.2786
- Elevation
- 42 m (138 ft)
- Mouth
- Mobile River
- Length
- 318 miles (512 km)
- Basin size
- 59,000 km (23,000 mi )
- Progression
- Mobile → Gulf of Mexico
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
The Alabama River, in the U.S. state of Alabama, is formed by the Tallapoosa and Coosa rivers, which unite about 6 miles (10 km) north of Montgomery, near the town of Wetumpka.
Over a course of approximately 319 miles (513 km), the river meanders west towards Selma, then southwest until, about 45 miles (72 km) from Mobile, it unites with the Tombigbee, forming the Mobile and Tensaw rivers, which discharge via the Mobile–Tensaw Delta into Mobile Bay.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alabama River” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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