Sinus Chesapeacus
E Vicipaedia
Coordinata: 36°59′45″N 75°57′34″W / 36.99583°N 75.95944°W
| Chesapeake Bay | |
| Estuary | |
 The Chesapeake Bay – Landsat photo
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| Name origin: Chesepiooc, Algonquian for village "at a big river" | |
| Natio | United States |
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| Civitates | Maryland, Virginia |
| Amnes in alium influens | |
| - A sinistra | Chester River, Choptank River, Nanticoke River, Pocomoke River |
| - A dextra | Patapsco River, Patuxent River, Potomac River, Rappahannock River, York River, James River |
| Fons | Susquehanna River |
| - locus | Havre de Grace, MD |
| - altitudo | 0 ft (0 m) |
| - coordinata | 39°32′35″N 76°04′32″W / 39.54306°N 76.07556°W |
| Os | Atlantic Ocean |
| - locus | Virginia Beach, VA |
| - altitudo | 0 ft (0 m) |
| - coordinata | 36°59′45″N 75°57′34″W / 36.99583°N 75.95944°W |
| Longitudo | 200 mi (322 km) |
| Latitudo | 30 mi (48 km) |
| Altitudo | 46 ft (14 m) |
| Pelvis hydrographica | 64 299 sq mi (166 534 km²) |
| Area | 4 479 sq mi (11 601 km²) |
| Effluens | |
| - medium | 78 300 cu ft/s (2 217 m3/s) [1] |
| - maximum | 389 000 cu ft/s (11 015 m3/s) |
| - minimum | 9 800 cu ft/s (278 m3/s) |
 Chesapeake Bay Watershed
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Sinus Chesapeacus[2] est maximum aestuarium in Civitatibus Foederatis.[3] Apud Oceanum Atlanticum situs est, a Terra Mariae et Virginia circumscriptus.
Notae [recensere]
- ↑ "Estimated Streamflow Entering Chesapeake Bay". ME-DE-DC Water Science Center. U.S. Geological Survey. 2011-05-05
- ↑ Iohannes Iacobus Hofmannus, Lexicon universale (1698) textus, Sectio Nomenclator p.21
- ↑ Leslie Kaufman (28 Dec 2010). "More Blue Crabs, but Chesapeake Bay Is Still at Risk, Report Says". The New York Times
Bibliographia [recensere]
- Cleaves, E. T., et al. 2006. Quaternary geologic map of the Chesapeake Bay 4º x 6º quadrangle, United States. Miscellaneous Investigations Series; Map I-1420 (NJ-18). Reston Virginiae: U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey.
- Phillips, S. W., ed. 2007. Synthesis of U.S. Geological Survey science for the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem and implications for environmental management. U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1316. Reston, Virginiae: U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey.
- Thomas, William G., III. 2004. "The Chesapeake Bay." Southern Spaces, 16 April, http://southernspaces.org/2004/chesapeake-bay.
- William W. Warner. 1976. Beautiful Swimmers. De histora, oecologia, et anthropologia Sinus Chesapeaci.
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