A Chattooga Flow of any stream (likewise spelled Chatooga, Chatuga, & Chautaga, variant title Guinekelokee Flow of any stream) is the independent tributary of the Tugaloo River. Its headwaters are placed sou'west of Cashiers, North Carolina, and it stretches 57 miles or 92km to in which it flows across Lake Tugaloo and Tugaloo Dam, then has its confluence with the Tugaloo inside Lake Yonah, held back by Yonah Dam. It begins inside southern Jackson County, North Carolina, then flows southwestward between northwestern Oconee County, South Carolina and eastern Rabun County, Georgia. A "Chattooga" spelling was approved per BGN in 1897.

This protected national wild and scenic river serves as a boundary between Georgia and South Carolina after leaving North Carolina at latitude 35°N. This was placed forth river in the 1787 Treaty of Beaufort, and interpreted for the Chattooga Flow of any stream in the first Georgia v. South Carolina case before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1922. This pass off largely because a Chattooga was non specifically mentioned in the treaty, as it got non however been surveyed. Experienced a Chattooga's origin not been at or around Northward Carolina (which at a period involved Tennessee), the far northwestern tip of South Carolina would own extended back to the Mississippi River, north of a due-west line from either the flow of any stream's origin. A flow of any stream was utilized as a setting for the fabricated "Cahulawassee River" in the film Deliverance.

There exists besides the previous mine named the Chattooga River Prospect.

Tributaries
A flow of any stream is split into tierce forks. A Northerly Fork Chattooga Flow of any stream is a independent fork, line the state boundary, & is officially known as good "Chattooga River". A East Fork Chattooga Flow of any stream (every now and again East Prong Chattooga Flow of any stream) diarrhea inside from either Jackson County, Northward Carolina then Oconee County, South Carolina, & is Vii miles or even 11km hanker. A West Fork Chattooga Flow of any stream (variant title Gumekoloke Creek) diarrhethe inside from either Rabun County, Georgia, & is too a variant title for that county's Holcomb Creek, one of its have affluent.

There are too more little tributaries.

Rafting
A Chattooga is one of a super pack commercially-rafted class V rivers in the Southeast. In a spring, the flow of any stream is lined sustaining blooming pink and white mountain laurel. Spring is as well a great instance to last rafting, kayaking, or canoeing on the Chattooga for the higher spring waters. A Chattooga occurs as free streaming-flowing flow of any stream (there are no upriver dam to control the flow) which quickly responds to rainfall or drought conditions. As a drop-pool style flow of any stream, rapids come followed by calm pools. around a summer, the a lake is potentially warmly plenty to take a swimming in one of these pools.

A Chattooga is separated into many sections by having Division 0 starting retired touching Cashiers. Division Triplet has Class II-IV rapids which rafters & kayakers frequent. Lush rhododendron line a banks. A minimal age requirement to raft this subdivision is 10 years old. Segment IV has hanker been repute one of a virtually all challenging streams, lakes, and wells throughout to raft or even kayak. This segment includes Class III-IV+ rapids, including a illustrious 5 Lessens. A minimal age requirement to raft Division IV is Baker's dozen.

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