Tensaw River
| Tensaw River | |
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| File:Tensaw at Blakeley.jpg The Tensaw River in Blakeley, Alabama | |
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| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Alabama |
| County | Baldwin County |
| Physical characteristics | |
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| Length | 41 mi (66 km) |
The Tensaw River is a river in Baldwin County, Alabama. The name "Tensaw" is derived from the historic indigenous Taensa people.[1]
Overview
[edit | edit source]It is a distributary of the Mobile River, about 41 miles (66 km) long. It is formed as a bayou of the Mobile roughly 6 mi (9.7 km) south of the formation of the Mobile by the confluence of the Tombigbee and Alabama rivers, at Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found..
The Tensaw flows alongside the Mobile and Middle Rivers, with the Tensaw being the easternmost flowing river. Numerous back channels extend off the main channel into Baldwin County. It enters Mobile Bay at Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found., near Blakeley and Pinto Islands and around 1.8 mi (2.9 km) east of downtown Mobile.[2]
See also
[edit | edit source]References
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- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Tensaw River
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