Charles River
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Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Massachusetts
- Cities
- Hopkinton , Cambridge , Boston
- Source
- Echo Lake
- Location
- Hopkinton , Massachusetts , United States
- Coordinates
- 42°11′34″N 71°30′43″W / 42.19278°N 71.51194°W / 42.19278; -71.51194
- Elevation
- 350 ft (110 m)
- Mouth
- Boston Harbor
- Length
- 80 mi (130 km)
- Basin size
- 308 mi (800 km )
- Average
- 302 cu ft/s (8.6 m /s)
- Minimum
- 0.1 cu ft/s (0.0028 m /s)
- Maximum
- 4,150 cu ft/s (118 m /s)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river
- Named after
- Massachusett people
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Massachusetts
- Image
- Longfellow pru.jpg
- Length
- 129
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- Commons category
- Charles River
- mouth of the watercourse
- Boston Harbor
- topic's main category
- Category:Charles River
- watershed area
- 798
- discharge
- 9
- basin country
- Massachusetts
- native label
- Massachusetts River
- different from
- Charles
- described by source
- New International Encyclopedia
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Charles River (Massachusett: Quinobequin), sometimes called the River Charles or simply the Charles, is an 80-mile-long (129 km) river in eastern Massachusetts. It flows northeast from Hopkinton to Boston along a meandering route which doubles back on itself several times and travels through 23 cities and towns before reaching the Atlantic Ocean.
Hydrography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Charles River” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
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