Delaware River

Delaware River

A river rising in the Catskill Mountains of southeast New York and flowing about 451 km (280 mi) generally southward along the New York-Pennsylvania border and the Pennsylvania-New Jersey border to northern Delaware, where it enters Delaware Bay. The Dutch explorers named it the South River to distinguish it from the North River, an estuary of the Hudson River.

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Delaware River - a river that rises in the Catskills in southeastern New York and flows southward along the border of Pennsylvania with New York and New Jersey to northern Delaware where it empties into Delaware Bay Delaware DE, Diamond State, First State, Delaware - a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies Empire State, New York State, NY, New York - a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies