Shenandoah River
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river in Virginia and West Virginia, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Virginia , West Virginia
- Towns
- Harpers Ferry, WV , Front Royal, VA , Luray, VA
- Source
- North Fork
- Location
- Shenandoah Mountain
- 2nd source
- South Fork
- Mouth
- Potomac River
- Elevation
- 246 ft (75 m)
- Length
- 56 mi (90 km)
- Basin size
- 2,937 sq mi (7,610 km )
- Average
- 2,755 cu ft/s (78.0 m /s)
- Left
- North Fork (Shenandoah River)
- Right
- South Fork (Shenandoah River)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Shenandoah River /ˌʃɛnənˈdoʊə/ is the principal tributary of the Potomac River, 55.6 miles (89.5 km) long with two forks approximately 100 miles (160 km) long each, in the U.S. states of Virginia and West Virginia. The river and its tributaries drain the central and lower Shenandoah Valley and the Page Valley in the Appalachians on the west side of the Blue Ridge Mountains, in northwestern Virginia and the eastern panhandle of West Virginia. There is a hydroelectric plant along the Shenandoah River constructed in 2014 by Dominion.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Shenandoah River” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.