The Cumberland River is a 668-mile-long body of water that runs through southern Kentucky and north-central Tennessee, draining 18,000 square miles of land that is home to an abundance of life, biodiversity, and history.
The river flows west from the Appalachian Mountains, draining into the Ohio and Tennessee Rivers.
The Cumberland River Basin project aims to promote the ecological and economical health of the Cumberland River Basin, an 18,000 square mile region that stretches across 70 Tennessee and Kentucky counties and home to more than 2 million people.
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