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Evelyn Guadalupe-Mejia

Possible Uses

  • Water supply in the river basin is very low so people try not to use it as much.
  • Irrigation, fisheries, shipping & transportation are all uses of the Pasquotank River basin.

Econimic Activities

Population & Counties

Agriculture & commercial fishing largely support

the economy of the Pasquotank River basin.

AGRICULTURE

TIMBER

  • About 118,913 people make up the population.
  • 10 counties can be found in the basin.
  • Elizabeth City is the major city.

Population density for the basin is 46 people/square mile.

However, in Elizabeth

City and the Kill Devil Hills area of the outer banks it is 305 people/square mile.

Paddling, hiking, & agriculture

are things that you can do in the basin.

The counties include

  • Camden
  • Chowan
  • Currituck
  • Dare
  • Gates
  • Hyde
  • Northampton
  • Pasquotank
  • Perquimans
  • Tyrrell

ACTIVITIES

TOURISM

Most tourists come to

  • see the lighthouses
  • to fish
  • to hang-glide
  • to windsurf
  • to swim
  • scale the tallest natural sand-dune system in the eastern United States, Jockey’s Ridge
  • travel to the barrier islands to witness the fall migration of thousands of ducks, geese and swans
  • to pay tribute to the first powered flight by humans
  • take the bridge across the sound to the site of the first English settlement in America, Roanoke Island
  • to see the pristine waters of the Alligator River and its newest residents, to see red wolves; to see the country’s oldest operating canal, the Dismal Swamp; and to see the Native American cypress canoes as old as the pyramids, Lake Phelps

Physical Characters

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  • Most of the the Pasquotank River basin lies in North Carolina's Coastal Plain and falls into the Albemarle Sound.
  • A small portion of the basin extends north
  • into Virginia.
  • It's bordered by the Roanoke River Basin to the west, the Chowan River Basin to the west and northwest, Virginia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Tar-Pamlico River Basin to the southwest and south.
  • It covers 3, 635 square miles.
  • It has 2,000 miles of streams/rivers.
  • Slopes can range up to 0% to 2%.
  • Elevation is at 0 feet.
  • One of the most known reservoir is Lake Phelps
  • The basin has many tributaries.

Which include

  • The Alligator River
  • The Perquimans River
  • The Little River
  • The Yeopim River
  • The Scuppernong River
  • The North River

These tributaries are

major ones.

The Pasquotank River Basin

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