Eel River (Wabash River tributary)
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The Eel River is a 94-mile-long (151 km)[4] tributary of the Wabash River in northern Indiana in the United States. Via the Wabash and Ohio rivers, its waters flow to the Mississippi River and ultimately the Gulf of Mexico. The Eel River rises southeast of Huntertown in Allen County and flows southwest through Allen, Whitley, Kosciusko, Wabash, Miami, and Cass counties to join the Wabash at Logansport. The river was called Kineepikwameekwa Siipiiwi - "river of the snake fish" by the Miami people, who inhabited the area at the time of European contact, the English rendered it as Ke-na-po-co-mo-co. It is the northern of the two rivers named Eel River within Indiana.
Eel River | |
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Native name | Kineepikwameekwa Siipiiwi (Miami-Illinois) |
Location | |
Country | United States |
State | Indiana |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | |
• location | Huntertown, Indiana |
Mouth | Wabash River |
• location | Logansport, Indiana |
Discharge | |
• location | mouth |
• average | 848.48 cu ft/s (24.026 m3/s) (estimate)[3] |