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A blackwater river is a type of river with a slow-moving channel flowing through forested swamps or wetlands. Most major blackwater rivers are in the Amazon Basin and the Southern United States . The term is used in fluvial studies, geology , geography , ecology , and biology .
The Blackwater River of Florida is a 56.6-mile-long (91.1 km) [3] river rising in southern Alabama and flowing through the Florida Panhandle to the Gulf of Mexico.The river enters Florida in Okaloosa County and flows through Santa Rosa County to Blackwater Bay, an arm of Pensacola Bay.
The Blackwater River is a true blackwater river.Its water is clear, dark, slightly acidic, and tannin stained. Its drainage basin contains many swamps.The river's flood plain is mostly forested and swampy, including bald cypress and tupelo swamp forests.
The Blackwater or Munster Blackwater (Irish: An Abhainn Mhór, The Great River) is a river which flows through counties Kerry, Cork and Waterford in Ireland. It rises in the Mullaghareirk Mountains in County Kerry and then flows in an easterly direction across County Cork through the towns of Mallow and Fermoy.
The Blackwater River is a 25.8-mile-long (41.5 km) [3] saltwater river in Dorchester County, Maryland. It has many twists and bends and flows through Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge . It runs through Robbins , where there is a boat ramp called Shorter's Wharf and a bridge.
The Blackwater River is a 79.3-mile-long (127.6 km) [3] tributary of the Lamine River in west-central Missouri in the United States. [1] Via the Lamine and Missouri rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River. The Blackwater River was named from the character of its banks and water. [4]
Blackwater River State Forest is a state forest in the western panhandle of Florida, United States. It is administered by the Florida Forest Service, part of the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Blackwater River State Forest is completely contained within Santa Rosa and Okaloosa Counties. The forest is managed from a ...
The Blackwater River is a 3.1-mile-long (5.0 km) tidal inlet in northeastern Massachusetts and southeastern New Hampshire in the United States. [1]The river forms in a salt marsh in the northeastern corner of Salisbury, Massachusetts, by the convergence of the Little River and Dead Creek.