| Pawtuxet River | |
|---|---|
 Original home of the Fruit of the Loom Company on the Pawtuxet River at Pontiac Village Warwick | |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Rhode Island |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | Kent County, Rhode Island |
| Mouth | |
• location | Providence River |
• coordinates | 41°45′52″N 71°23′21″W / 41.764416°N 71.389094°W |
| Discharge | |
| • location | Providence River |
The Pawtuxet River (PAH-tucks-it[1]), also known as the Pawtuxet River Main Stem and the Lower Pawtuxet, is a river in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. It flows 12.3 miles (19.8 km)[2] and empties into the upper Narragansett Bay of the Atlantic Ocean. Together with its two main tributary branches, the North Branch Pawtuxet River and the South Branch Pawtuxet River, it drains a watershed of 231.6 square miles (600 km2), all of which is in the state of R.I.
- ^ Farzan, Antonia Noori. "Rhode Island pronunciation guide: 35 names that visitors and even some locals get wrong". The Providence Journal. Retrieved July 4, 2024.
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed April 1, 2011