Oswego River (New York)
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 The Oswego River as it passes through the city of Oswego.
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| Country | United States |
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| State | New York |
| Counties | Onondaga, Oswego |
| Tributaries | |
| - left | Seneca River |
| - right | Oneida River |
| City | Oswego |
| Source | |
| - elevation | 357 ft (109 m) |
| - coordinates | 43°12′5″N 76°16′50″W / 43.20139°N 76.28056°W |
| Mouth | Lake Ontario |
| - location | Oswego |
| - elevation | 245 ft (75 m) |
| - coordinates | 43°27′54″N 76°30′50″W / 43.46500°N 76.51389°WCoordinates: 43°27′54″N 76°30′50″W / 43.46500°N 76.51389°W |
| Basin | 5,122 sq mi (13,266 km2) |
| Discharge | for Oswego |
| - average | 6,912 cu ft/s (196 m3/s) |
| - max | 37,000 cu ft/s (1,048 m3/s) (March 28, 1936) |
| - min | 261 cu ft/s (7 m3/s) (September 18, 1985) |
 The Oswego drainage basin, with the Oswego River highlighted
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The Oswego River /ɒsˈwiːɡoʊ/ is a river in upstate New York in the United States. It is the second-largest river (after the Niagara River) flowing into Lake Ontario. James Fenimore Cooper’s novel The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea is set in the Oswego River valley.
The name Oswego is a Mohawk name that means "flowing out", or specifically, "small water flowing into that which is large".
James Fenimore Cooper described the Oswego in these words:
The Oswego is formed by the junction of the Oneida and the Onondaga, both of which flow from lakes; and it pursues its way, through a gently undulating country, some eight or ten miles, until it reaches the margin of a sort of natural terrace, down which it tumbles some ten or fifteen feet, to another level, across which it glides with the silent, stealthy progress of deep water, until it throws its tribute into the broad receptacle of the Ontario.
The Oswego River starts at the confluence of the Oneida River (flowing from Oneida Lake) and the Seneca River (flowing from Seneca Lake, Cayuga Lake, and Montezuma Marsh). The river drains an area of 5,122 square miles (13,266 km2), as large as the states of Rhode Island and Delaware together, comprising most of the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York.
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