gulf intracoastal waterway

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System of inland waterways, including rivers and canals, along the U.S. coast of the Gulf of Mexico. It extends from Apalachee Bay, Fla., west to the Mexican border at Brownsville, Texas, a distance of more than 1,100 mi (1,770 km). It includes Mobile Bay and Mississippi Sound, passes through New Orleans, and takes in the Sabine-Neches Waterway and the ship canal at Houston. Together with its counterpart, the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, it forms the Intracoastal Waterway, a shipping route that extends for 3,000 mi (4,800 km) in the southern and eastern U.S

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gulf intracoastal wa·ter·way