The Tensaw River is a distributary of the Mobile River, approximately 25 mi (56 km) long, in southern Alabama in the United States. It is formed as a bayou of the Mobile approximately 6 mi (10 km) south of the formation of the Mobile by the confluence of the Tombigbee and Alabama rivers. The Tensaw flows alongside the Mobile to the east, with numerous back channels extending off the main channel into rural Baldwin County. It enters Mobile Bay on the Gulf of Mexico approximately 10 mi (16 km) east of the city of Mobile and the mouth of the Mobile.
The principal rivers in the western half of the state are the Tombigbee and its chief tributary, the Black Warrior.
Martin Lake is on the Tallapoosa River, and Weiss Reservoir (partly in Georgia) and Logan Martin, Lay, Mitchell, and Jordan lakes are on the Coosa River.
Holt and Warrior reservoirs and Lakes Lewis Smith and Bankhead are on the Black Warrior River or its tributaries, and Miller’s Ferry Reservoir is on the AlabamaRiver.
The TensawRiver is a distributary of the Mobile River, approximately 25 mi (56 km) long, in southern Alabama in the United States.
It is formed as a bayou of the Mobile approximately 6 mi (10 km) south of the formation of the Mobile by the confluence of the Tombigbee and Alabamarivers.
The Tensaw flows alongside the Mobile to the east, with numerous back channels extending off the main channel into rural Baldwin County.
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