Susquehanna River
Chesapeake Bay tributary
The Susquehanna River is a major river in the northeastern United States, flowing about 444 miles from central New York through Pennsylvania and into Chesapeake Bay in Maryland.
It drains the largest watershed on the East Coast.
The name comes from a Lenape word.
The Susquehanna floods its banks nearly every spring.
- Three Mile IslandPennsylvania nuclear disaster site
- PennsylvaniaNortheastern founding colony state
- tributaryStream entering larger river
- Chesapeake BayMid-Atlantic tidal estuary
- watershedDrainage area boundary
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