hudson river

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(Muh-he-kun-ne-tuk or Muhheakantuck) River Looking upriver from the Bear Mountain Bridge Country United States States New York, New Jersey Tributaries - left Hoosic River - right Mohawk River, Rondout Creek/Wallkill River Cities Glens Falls, Troy, Albany, Hudson, Kingston, Poughkeepsie, Newburgh, Beacon, Peekskill, Yonkers, New York City, Jersey City, NJ Source Lake Tear of the Clouds - location Mount Marcy, Adirondack Mountains, New York, USA - elevation 4,293 ft (1,309 m) - coordinates 44°06'24?N 73°56'09?W? / ?44.10667, -73.93583 Mouth Upper New York Bay - elevation 0 ft (0 m) - coordinates 40°42'11?N 74°01'36?W? / ?40.70306, -74.02667 Length 315 mi (507 km) Basin 14,000 sq mi (36,260 km²) Discharge for Lower New York Bay - average 21,400 cu ft/s (606 m³/s) Discharge elsewhere (average) - Troy 15,000 cu ft/s (425 m³/s) Hudson and Mohawk watersheds

The Hudson River, called Muh-he-kun-ne-tuk , the Great Mohegan by the Iroquois,[1][2][3] or as the Lenape Native Americans called it in Unami, Muhheakantuck, Tkahnéhtati[4] in Tuscarora), is a 315-mile (507 km) river that flows from north to south through eastern New York State and forms the border between New York City and New Jersey at its mouth before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean. It is named for Henry Hudson, an Englishman sailing for the Dutch East India Company, who explored it in 1609. The Hudson River was originally named the Mauritius River, which is claimed to be the name given by Hudson in honor of Prince Maurice of Nassau. Alternatively, it is said to be the name given by Sixteenth century European adventurers, explorers, and fishermen who knew the river as River Mauritius, 'The River of Mountains'.

Early European settlement of the area clustered around the river. The area inspired the Hudson River school of painting, a sort of early American pastoral idyll. Contents [hide] 1 Geography 1.1 The Narrows 1.2 Haverstraw Bay 2 Transportation 3 Political boundaries 4 Tributaries 5 Theodore Roosevelt's historic route 6 Pollution 7 Miscellaneous 8 See also 9 References 10 External links //

Geography

The official source of the Hudson is Lake Tear of the Clouds in the Adirondack Mountains. However, the waterway from the lake is known as Feldspar Brook and the Opalescent River, feeding into the Hudson at Tahawus. The actual Hudson River begins several miles north of Tahawus at Henderson Lake. The Hudson is joined at Troy (north of Albany) by the Mohawk River, its major tributary, just south of which the Federal Dam separates the Upper Hudson River Valley from the Lower Hudson