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According to the United States Census Bureau, the village of Estero has a total area of 25.4 square miles (65.7 km 2), of which 24.4 square miles (63.1 km 2) are land and 1.0 square mile (2.7 km 2), or 4.05%, are water. [22] Historically and culturally, the heart of Estero is the spring-fed Estero River, which flows to Estero Bay.
The Estero River, in Southwest Florida, is 6.52 miles long.It flows west and spills into Estero Bay estuary. The Estero River has abundant wildlife and is an important habitat for endangered species such as the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis), Key Largo woodrat (Neotoma floridana smalli), [2] gray bat (Myotis grisescens), and the whooping crane (Grus americana) among others.
The river valley was filled with glacial debris. Water still flows down this old valley—underground. The source of the aquifer is the Georgian Bay, [6] approximately 200 kilometres (120 mi) away. In 2003 it was discovered that the southern section of the Laurentian aquifer reaches under High Park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [6]
Georgian Bay has been known by several names. To the Ojibwe, it is known as "Spirit Lake".To the Huron-Wendat, it is known as Lake Attigouatan. Samuel de Champlain, the first European to explore and map the area in 1615–1616, called it "La Mer douce" (the sweet/calm/fresh sea), which was a reference to the bay's freshwater. [1]
The Trent–Severn Waterway is a 386-kilometre-long (240 mi) canal route connecting Lake Ontario at Trenton to Georgian Bay, Lake Huron, at Port Severn.Its major natural waterways include the Trent River, Otonabee River, Kawartha Lakes, Lake Simcoe, Lake Couchiching and Severn River.
The Thirty Thousand Islands are the world's largest freshwater archipelago, and are located mainly along the east side of Georgian Bay, part of the Great Lakes, in Ontario, Canada. [1] [2] Biosphere map of Georgian Bay. UNESCO designated the area in 2004 as the Georgian Bay Littoral (also called the Georgian Bay Biosphere Reserve). It is an ...
Little Squalicum Creek again empties into Bellingham Bay, with a new estuary designed to provide habitat for young salmon and other fish.. It’s part of a $5.7 million project that began in ...
When asked where they were going by the Voyageurs, they would reply "Kewa", which meant "Go Home" in their native language, hence the name for both the Bay on Georgian Bay, the river and the Lake. Go Home Lake is approximately 5 miles (8 km) long and ranges from 1/2 to 3/4 miles (800 - 1,200 m) wide.