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The Caraquet River is a
river A river is a natural stream of fresh water that flows on land or inside Subterranean river, caves towards another body of water at a lower elevation, such as an ocean, lake, or another river. A river may run dry before reaching the end of ...
in north-eastern
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which empties into the
Caraquet Bay Caraquet Bay () is situated in the northeast of the Canadian province of New Brunswick. It is bordered on the south by the town of Caraquet and the village of Bertrand, to the south by the parish of New Bandon, to the north by the village of Ma ...
north of
Caraquet Caraquet ( ) is a town in Gloucester County, New Brunswick, Canada. Situated on the shore of Chaleur Bay in the Acadian Peninsula, its name is derived from the Mi'kmaq term for ''meeting of two rivers''. The Caraquet River and Rivière du Nord ...
.Proceedings, Ninth National Shellfish Sanitation Workshop
 United States, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Food and Drug Administration, Shellfish Sanitation Branch, 1975. 103f. The river's name means "meeting of two rivers" in the
Mi'kmaq language The Miꞌkmaq language ( ; ), or , is an Eastern Algonquian language spoken by nearly 11,000 Miꞌkmaq in Canada and the United States; the total ethnic Miꞌkmaq population is roughly 20,000. The native name of the language is , or (in some ...
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River Communities

* Bertrand * Burnsville


River Crossings

* Route 11 * Route 135 * Route 340


See also

*
List of rivers of New Brunswick This is a List of bodies of water in the Canadian province of New Brunswick, including waterfalls. New Brunswick receives precipitation year-round, which feeds numerous streams and rivers. There are two main discharge basins: the Gulf of Saint L ...


References

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