Pokemouche River
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New Brunswick
New Brunswick is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the only province in the federation that is constitutionally bilingual . The provincial capital is Fredericton and Saint John is the most populous city. Greater Moncton is the largest Census Metropolitan Area...
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
. The name is derived from the Algonquin language. Its headwaters are near the community of Paquetville
Paquetville, New Brunswick
Paquetville is a Canadian village in Gloucester County, New Brunswick.It is located on the Acadian Peninsula and was founded by Monseigneur Paquet in 1873, who brought several parishioners with him from Shippagan....
, and it flows in an easterly direction approximately twenty kilometers where it empties into the Gulf of St. Lawrence at Inkerman
Inkerman
Inkerman is a town in Crimea, Ukraine. It is situated 5 kilometres east of Sevastopol, at the mouth of the Chernaya River that flows into Sevastopol Inlet . Administratively, Inkerman is subordinate to the municipality of Sevastopol which does not constitute part of the Autonomous Republic of...
. Other communities along its watershed
Drainage basin
A drainage basin is an extent or an area of land where surface water from rain and melting snow or ice converges to a single point, usually the exit of the basin, where the waters join another waterbody, such as a river, lake, reservoir, estuary, wetland, sea, or ocean...
include Maltampec
Maltampec, New Brunswick
Maltempec is a community in the Canadian province of New Brunswick....
and Pokemouche
Pokemouche, New Brunswick
Pokemouche is the community in the centre of the Acadian Peninsula in the Canadian province of New Brunswick....
. Its tributaries include South River, Cowans Creek, and the Waugh River.