Saint John River
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river in New Brunswick and Quebec, Canada and Maine, USA
Key facts
- Etymology
- Named by Samuel de Champlain on the feast day of John the Baptist ; Wolastoq means "beautiful river"
- Countries
- Canada United States
- Province
- New Brunswick
- State
- Maine
- Cities
- Edmundston Fredericton Saint John
- Source
- Saint John Ponds
- Location
- Somerset County, Maine , United States
- Elevation
- 360 m (1,180 ft)
- Mouth
- Bay of Fundy
- Length
- 673 km (418 mi)
- Basin size
- 54,986 km (21,230 sq mi)
- Average
- 990 m /s (35,000 cu ft/s)
- Left
- Tobique River , Jemseg River , Kennebecasis River
- Right
- Allagash River , Aroostook River , Nerepis River
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- New Brunswick
- Image
- FrederictonNB SaintJohnRiver.jpg
- Length
- 606
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- Commons category
- Saint John River
- mouth of the watercourse
- Bay of Fundy
- category for the water basin
- Category:Tributaries of the Saint John River (Bay of Fundy)
- watershed area
- 54986
- discharge
- 990.0
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- origin of the watercourse
- Southwest Branch Saint John River
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Saint John River (fleuve Saint-Jean; Maliseet-Passamaquoddy: Wolastoq, meaning “beautiful river”) is a 673-kilometre-long (418 mi) river flowing from headwaters in the Notre Dame Mountains near the Maine–Quebec border of the United States and Canada through northern Maine and western New Brunswick to the northwest shore of the Bay of Fundy. It is the longest river in eastern Canada.
Its drainage basin is one of the largest on the east coast of North America, covering approximately 55,000 square kilometres (21,000 sq mi).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Saint John River” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.