Apalachicola River
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Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Florida
- Source
- Lake Seminole
- Location
- Chattahoochee, Florida
- Coordinates
- 30°42′31″N 84°51′50″W / 30.7086°N 84.8639°W / 30.7086; -84.8639
- Elevation
- 75 ft (23 m)
- Mouth
- Gulf of Mexico
- Length
- 160 mi (260 km)
- Basin size
- 19,500 mi (51,000 km )
- Average
- 19,602 cu ft/s (555.1 m /s)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Florida
- Image
- Apalachicola River.jpg
- Length
- 180
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- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- Commons category
- Apalachicola River
- mouth of the watercourse
- Gulf of Mexico
- category for the water basin
- Category:ACF River Basin
- watershed area
- 51800
- discharge
- 470
- different from
- Apalachicola
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Encyclopedic overview
The Apalachicola River /æpəlætʃɪˈkoʊlə/ is a river, approximately 160 miles (260 km) long, in the state of Florida. The river's large watershed, known as the Apalachicola, Chattahoochee and Flint (ACF) River Basin, drains an area of approximately 19,500 square miles (50,500 km) into the Gulf of Mexico. The distance to its furthest head waters (as the Chattahoochee River) in northeast Georgia is approximately 500 miles (800 km). Its name comes from Apalachicola Province, an association of Native American towns located on what is now the Chattahoochee River. The Spanish included what is now named the Chattahoochee River as part of one river, calling all of it from its origins in the southern Appalachian foothills down to the Gulf of Mexico the Apalachicola.
Description
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Apalachicola River” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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