page_title: Saco River
section_title: External links
hierarchical_section_title: Saco River / External links
context_page_description: The Saco River is a river in northeastern New Hampshire and southwestern Maine in the United States. It drains a rural area of 1,703 square miles of forests and farmlands west and southwest of Portland, emptying into the Atlantic Ocean at Saco Bay, 136 miles from its source. It supplies drinking water to roughly 250,000 people in thirty-five towns; and historically provided transportation and water power encouraging development of the cities of Biddeford and Saco and the towns of Fryeburg and Hiram. The name "Saco" comes from the Eastern Abenaki word [sɑkohki], meaning "land where the river comes out". The Jesuit Relations, ethnographic documents from the 17th century, refer to the river as Chouacoet.
context_section_description: EPA Saco River Watershed Profile
  Saco River Profile at MaineRivers.org
  Real-time flow data for the Conway, NH and Cornish, ME gages
  Saco River Corridor Commission
  Saco River Cleanup, an annual event sponsored by the Saco River Recreation Council
  "Popular river struggles with balancing act", Portland Press Herald, Aug. 11, 2002
caption: On the Saco, Benjamin Champney (1817-1907)
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