For other uses, see Perdido River (disambiguation).
River in Florida and Alabama, United States
Perdido River
Perdido Pass, the mouth of the Perdido River and Perdido Bay at Orange Beach, Alabama. Alabama State Route 182 crosses the inlet.
Location
Country
United States
State
Alabama and Florida
Physical characteristics
Source
• location
Escambia County, AL
Mouth
• location
Perdido Bay
• elevation
sea level
Length
65 miles (105 km)
The Perdido River, also historically known as Rio Perdido or by its native name of Cassaba,[1][2] is a 65.4-mile-long (105.3 km)[3] river in the U.S. states of Alabama and Florida; the Perdido, a designated Outstanding Florida Waters river, forms part of the boundary between the two states along nearly its entire length and drains into the Gulf of Mexico. During the early 19th century it played a central role in a series of rotating boundary changes and disputes among France, Spain, Great Britain, and the United States.
It rises in southwestern Alabama in Escambia County approximately 8 miles (13 km) northwest of Atmore. It flows south approximately 5 miles (8 km) to latitude 31°N, south of which it forms the remainder of the Alabama/Florida border. It flows generally east-southeast in a winding course and enters the north end of Perdido Bay on the Gulf of Mexico, approximately 10 miles (16 km) west of Pensacola.
The word "perdido" is Spanish for "lost".
^Gibson, J. (January 1763). "A map of the new governments of East & West Florida : J. Gibson sculp". Florida Studies Center Gallery.
^Taitt, David (1771). "A plan of part of the rivers Tombecbe, Alabama, Tensa, Perdido, & Scambia in the province of West Florida; with a sketch of the boundary between the nation of upper Creek Indians and that part of the province which is contigious thereto, as settled at the congresses at Pensacola in the years 1765 & 1771". Library of Congress. Retrieved March 6, 2024.
^U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed April 15, 2011
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