The River Dee (Welsh: Afon Dyfrdwy) is a 70-mile (110 km) long river in the United Kingdom. It travels through Wales and England and also forms part of the border between them.
The river rises in Snowdonia, Wales, flows north via Chester, England, and discharges to the sea into an estuary between Wales and the Wirral Peninsula (England).
The total catchment area of the River Dee up to Chester Weir is 1,816.8 square kilometres (701.5 sq mi). The a...
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The River Dee (Welsh: Afon Dyfrdwy) is a 70-mile (110 km) long river in the United Kingdom. It travels through Wales and England and also forms part of the border between them.
The river rises in Snowdonia, Wales, flows north via Chester, England, and discharges to the sea into an estuary between Wales and the Wirral Peninsula (England).
The total catchment area of the River Dee up to Chester Weir is 1,816.8 square kilometres (701.5 sq mi). The average rainfall over the catchment is estimated to be 640 millimetres (25 in) yielding an average flow of 37 m³/s. The larger reservoirs in the catchment are:
The River Dee has its source on the slopes of Dduallt above Llanuwchllyn in the mountains of Snowdonia in Merioneth, Gwynedd, Wales, and then passes through Bala Lake. The path of the river trends generally east-south-east as it descends off the Ordovician Denbigh Moors, over the man-made Horseshoe Falls and through Llangollen, generally skirting the outcropping Karstic limestone...
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