River Dee | |
River | |
View o the Dee at Tongland
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Kintra | Scotland |
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Region | Dumfries an Gallowa |
Offeecial name | Loch Ken & River Dee Marshes |
Designatit | 31 August 1992 |
Tributaries | |
- left | Tarff Watter |
- right | Watter o Ken |
Sattlements | Kirkcoubrie, Tongland, Brig o Dee, Glenlochar, Crossmickle, Parton |
Soorce | Loch Dee |
Mooth | Kirkcoubrie Bay |
Lenth | 61 km (38 mi) |
Basin | 1,050 km2 (405 sq mi) |
The River Dee, Dee Watter, or Watter o Dee (Scots Gaelic: Dè / Uisge Dhè), in soothwast Scotland, flowes fae its soorce in Loch Dee amang the Gallowa Hills, first tae Clatteringshaws Loch, syne intae Loch Ken, whaur it jynes the Watter o Ken. Fae there, the Dee flowes 15 mile soothwart tae Kirkcoubrie, an intae Kirkcoubrie Bay tae reak the Solway Firth. The range is juist ower 38 mile in tot. Thegither wi its watters, the Dee's tot catchment aurie is ower 400 square miles.[1]
The Dee is teppit at Tongland, twa mile up the river fae Kirkcoubrie. This wis biggit as a pairt o the Galloway hydroelectric pouer scheme in the 1930s. At this site is Tongland Brig an aw, biggit in 1806 bi Thomas Telford.
The ruins o Threave Castle staund on an island on the lawer pairt o the Dee.
In Ptolemy's 2t century wark Geography it is recordit as Dēoúa. This form represents a development o the Proto-Indo-European leid *deiueh2- "a goddess" that occurs in mony Celtic river-names.[2]
The Dee haes been kent as the Black Watter o Dee an aw acause o its daurk colour in the streek abuin Loch Ken.
Loch Ken an the Dee Merses wis thegither designatit a Ramsar site on 21 August 1992.
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