Cape Fear River

Catchment area of ​​the Cape Fear River

The Cape Fear River at Smith Creek in Wilmington, NC.

The Cape Fear River is a 325 km long river blackwater in east central North Carolina in the United States. He opens at Cape Fear in the Atlantic Ocean, giving the river its name. The Notropis mekistocholas, (English: Cape Fear Shiner ) is an endemic species of its catchment area.

Run

The Cape Fear River originates in Haywood near the Countygrenze between Lee County and Chatham County by the confluence of Deep River and Haw River, just below the B. Everett Jordan Lake. It flows past the south-east of Lillington, Fayetteville and Elizabethtown. About 16 km north- west of Wilmington in Wilmington opens and the Northeast Cape Fear River to the Black River. He then turns south and flows as estuary into the Atlantic Ocean, about 5 km west of Cape Fear.

During the colonial period the river was a main road into the interior of North Carolina. Today the river is navigable by a series of locks and dams to Fayetteville. The estuary of the Cape Fear River is part of the U.S. Intracoastal Waterway.

In Wilmington, the Battleship North Carolina is located in the river, which was in use during World War II. It is entered in the National Register of Historic Places and now serves as a museum ship.