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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 Red-cockaded woodpecker is endemic to the flatwoods ecosystem and the Blackwater River is the northern range of this woodpecker. [3] Many species of reptiles and amphibians depend on the long leaf pine ecosystem. [4] The Blackwater River is one of the few locations in Virginia that has over thirty species of amphibians. [5]
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.
The Blackwater River is a 34.3-mile-long (55.2 km) river [4] in the Allegheny Mountains of eastern West Virginia, USA. Via the Black Fork , it is a principal tributary of the Cheat River . Via the Cheat, the Monongahela and the Ohio rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River and drains an area of 142 square miles (370 km 2 ).
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 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]
The river runs along the centre of the Blackwater Valley, which is maintained as a largely tree-planted open space, with some bog, marsh and water-meadows. It runs for approximately 22.5 miles (36 km) from the source at Rowhill Nature Reserve near Aldershot in the south, northwards to Swallowfield where the river is joined by the " Whitewater ...