Pocomoke River

Pocomoke River
Map of the rivers of the Eastern Shore of Maryland with the Pocomoke and its watershed highlighted.
Location
Country	United States
State	Delaware, Maryland, & Virginia
Region	Delmarva Peninsula
Physical characteristics
Source	Great Cypress Swamp
Mouth	Pocomoke Sound
• elevation	0 ft (0 m)
Length	66 mi (106 km), northeast-to-southwest
Basin features
Tributaries
• left	Dividing Creek, Nassawango Creek, Givens Branch, Aydelotte Branch
• right	Pitts Creek, Pilchard Creek, Mattaponi Creek, Corkers Creek

The Pocomoke River stretches approximately 66 miles (106 km)^[1] from southern Delaware through southeastern Maryland in the United States. At its mouth, the river is essentially an arm of Chesapeake Bay, whereas the upper river flows through a series of relatively inaccessible wetlands called the Great Cypress Swamp, largely populated by Loblolly Pine, Red Maple and Bald Cypress. The river is the easternmost river that flows into Chesapeake Bay. "Pocomoke" locally /ˈpoʊkoʊmoʊk/, though traditionally interpreted as "dark (or black) water" by local residents, is now agreed by scholars of the Algonquian languages to be derived from the words for "broken (or pierced) ground."^[2]