Susquehanna River
General data
- Water type: River
- Source: West Branch Susquehanna River, North Branch Susquehanna River
- Progression: Chesapeake Bay -> Atlantic Ocean -> Planet Earth
- Climates: Temperate
- Continents: North America
- Countries: United States of America
Description
The Susquehanna River is a major river located in Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, overlapping between the lower Northeast and the Upland South. At 444 miles (715 km) long, it is the longest river on the East Coast of the United States. The Susquehanna River forms from two main branches: the North Branch, which rises in Cooperstown, New York, and is regarded by federal mapmakers as the main branch or headwaters, and the West Branch, which rises in western Pennsylvania and joins the main branch near Northumberland in central Pennsylvania. The river drains 27,500 square miles (71,000 km2), including nearly half of the land area of Pennsylvania. The drainage basin includes portions of the Allegheny Plateau region of the Appalachian Mountains, cutting through a succession of water gaps in a broad zigzag course to flow across the rural heartland of southeastern Pennsylvania and northeastern Maryland in the lateral near-parallel array of mountain ridges. The river empties into the northern end of the Chesapeake Bay at Perryville and Havre de Grace, Maryland, providing half of the Bays freshwater inflow. The bay lies in the flooded valley, or ria, of the Susquehanna.
Source
Rivers
Salmoniformes - Salmons and Trouts
Moroniformes - Temperate basses
Centrarchiformes - Basses and sunfishes
Esociformes - Pikes
Siluriformes - Catfishes
Cypriniformes - Carps
Anguilliformes - Eels and morays
Clupeiformes - Herrings
Percopsiformes - Trout-perches
Cyprinodontiformes - Toothcarps
Perciformes - Perches
Scorpaeniformes - Mail-cheeked fishes
Catches
