Tensaw River
Template:Use American English Template:Infobox river The Tensaw River is a river in Baldwin County, Alabama. The name "Tensaw" is derived from the historic indigenous Taensa people.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Overview
It is a distributary of the Mobile River, about Template:Convert long. It is formed as a bayou of the Mobile roughly Template:Convert south of the formation of the Mobile by the confluence of the Tombigbee and Alabama rivers, at Template:Coord.
The Tensaw flows alongside the Mobile and Middle Rivers, with the Tensaw being the easternmost flowing river. Numerous back channels extend off the main channel into Baldwin County. It enters Mobile Bay at Template:Coord, near Blakeley and Pinto Islands and around Template:Convert east of downtown Mobile.<ref name="GNIS">Template:Gnis</ref>