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Mohawk River: Cohoes Falls Cohoes Falls (or Great Falls) on the Mohawk River, Cohoes, New York.

Mohawk River

river, New York, United States
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Mohawk River, largest tributary of the Hudson River, east-central New York, U.S. Draining 3,412 square miles (8,837 square km), the Mohawk forms in Oneida county at the junction of its East and West branches. It then flows 140 miles (225 km) south and east past Rome, Utica, Amsterdam, and Schenectady, joining the Hudson at Waterford, north of Troy. A 117-mile (188-km) section of the Erie Canal (now part of the New York State Canal System)...

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