Pacolet River

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The Pacolet River is a tributary of the Broad River and extending over a length of about 80 kilometers in the northwest of the state of South Carolina in the United States of America. One of the main headwaters of the River has its catchment area in the west of the neighboring state of North Carolina. About the Broad and Congaree River to the Pacolet River flows as part of the Santee River River system into the Atlantic. The name has been in the past, " Pacolate River" spelled ..

Course

The Pacolet is formed by the confluence of its short southern and northern tributaries. :

• The North Pacolet River rises in the Blue Ridge Mountains in the southeast of Henderson counties in North Carolina and flows east to Polk County. There, the river is dammed and forms the Lake Summit, then it passes the village of Tryon and turns to the south-east to the north of Spartanburg County.
• The South Pacolet River rises in the northeast of Greenville County and flows eastward to the north of Spartanburg County, where he passed the village of Campo Bello and is dammed to William C. Bowen Lake ..

These two rivers flow 16 km north-northeast of the town Spartanburg together, the resulting Pacolet River flows to the southeast, passing along the borders of the counties of Spartanburg, Cherokee and Union, by the Lake Blalock and to the small town of Central Pacolet. It ends six kilometers north of the town Lockhart at the common boundary of the Cherokee County and Union in the Broad River.

In Spartanburg County of Pacolet River to Lawson's Fork Creek takes on, which is historically referred to as the " Lawson's Fork of the Pacolet River." The creek flows along its entire length in Spartanburg County and passes through the city of Spartanburg.