The Apalachee River is a

distributary A distributary, or a distributary channel, is a stream that branches off and flows away from a main stream channel. Distributaries are a common feature of river deltas. The phenomenon is known as river bifurcation. The opposite of a distributar ...

river in

Baldwin County, Alabama Baldwin County is a county located in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Alabama, on the Gulf coast. It is one of only two counties in Alabama that border the Gulf of Mexico, along with Mobile County. As of the 2020 census, the populat ...

that forms part of the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta. It branches off from the

Tensaw River The Tensaw River is a river in Baldwin County, Alabama. The name ''Tensaw'' is derived from the historic indigenous Taensa people. Overview It is a distributary of the Mobile River, approximately long. It is formed as a bayou of the Mobile appro ...

at . From there it flows southward for approximately before emptying into

Mobile Bay Mobile Bay ( ) is a shallow inlet of the Gulf of Mexico, lying within the state of Alabama in the United States. Its mouth is formed by the Fort Morgan Peninsula on the eastern side and Dauphin Island, a barrier island on the western side. The ...

at . Apalachee comes from the

Hitchiti The Hitchiti ( ) were a historic indigenous tribe in the Southeast United States. They formerly resided chiefly in a town of the same name on the east bank of the Chattahoochee River, four miles below Chiaha, in western present-day Georgia. The n ...

word ''apalahchi'', which means "on the other side".

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Rivers of Baldwin County, Alabama Rivers of Alabama Tributaries of Mobile Bay Alabama placenames of Native American origin {{Alabama-river-stub

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