Broad River (Carolinas)

Catchment area of ​​the Santee River, middle: Broad River

The Broad River near Blacksburg, South Carolina

Template: Infobox River / Obsolete

The Broad River is one of the sources of the Congaree River. It is about 240 kilometers long and flows to the west and North Carolina to the north of the neighboring state of South Carolina in the southeastern United States of America. Due to the confluence with the Congaree is the Broad River part of the watershed of the Santee River, which flows into the Atlantic.

Course

The Broad River rises in the Blue Ridge Mountains to the east of Buncombe County in North Carolina and flows in a south- southeasterly direction through and along the borders of the counties Rutherford, Polk, Cleveland and Cherokee in North Carolina; in South Carolina, it flows through or along the county York, Union, Chester, Fairfield, Newberry and Richland. In North Carolina, the river is dammed at Lake Lure; in South Carolina, he passed the Sumter National Forest and the communities of Cherokee Falls and Lockhart before he formed by the confluence with the Saluda River in Columbia Congaree River the.

Important tributaries of the Broad River are among others the Green, Second Broad and First Broad River in North Carolina, and the Bowens, Pacolet, Sandy, Tyger, Enoree and Little River in South Carolina.

Alternative names

According to the Geographic Names Information System of the Broad River was referred to by other names:

• ESWA Huppeday
• Eswaspuddenah
• River Line
• Main Broad River
• Eswan Happedaw

During the colonial period, the river was also known as English Broad River to him from the French Broad River to distinguish which arises also in western North Carolina but to the northwest on the former territory of New France flows.