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Length 500 kilometres (300 miles); basin area: 58,000 square kilometres (23,000 square miles). The Alabama River is one of the main headwaters of the Mobile River which drains south to the Gulf of Mexico. The Alabama River is formed by the confluence of the Tallapoosa and Coosa rivers about 16 kilometres (10 miles) north of Montgomery. Its main tributary is the Cahaba River whose headwaters are near Birmingham.
The Coosa.
Noccalula Falls on the Coosa.
Cochrane-Africatown Bridge, a cable stayed suspension bridge, crosses the Mobile River in Mobile, Alabama.The Alabama joins with the Tombigbee to flow south as the Mobile River and reaches the Gulf of Mexico in the swamps of the Mobile delta. The Alabama has been improved for navigation throughout its length. |
