Definitions
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- noun a river in southern Florida that flows westerly to the Gulf of Mexico; forms the western end of the Cross-Florida Waterway
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Examples
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There are dozens of islands near Fort Myers where the Caloosahatchee, the Myakka, and the Peace Rivers spill out into the lower Gulf: Cayo Costa, Gasparilla named after pirate José Gaspar, Captiva, Sanibel.
Dream State Diane Roberts 2008
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They landed, well, somewhere, most likely near the mouth of the Caloosahatchee.
Dream State Diane Roberts 2008
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The result was that the east coast of Florida did not want the bulk of the toxic soup in their backyard, so it got sent down the Caloosahatchee, straight into the Gulf of Mexico and the sensitive “fish nurseries” of the baywaters here.
Manatee Mortality Data, Disaster Engineering and Thoughts on Depopulation 2008
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Another word about how lame it is where I live, I ride a trail bike here in southwest FLA on the local trails Caloosahatchee regional Park mostly singletrack witha few very short climbs of like 40 deg x 12ft elevation.
Multiples: How Much Is Too Much? BikeSnobNYC 2008
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He wanted to dig a canal into the St. Lucie River and other canals in the Kissimmee and Caloosahatchee.
Dream State Diane Roberts 2008
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In 2005 more than 600 billion gallons of yucky water from Lake Okeechobee flowed through the Caloosahatchee into the Gulf.
Manatee Mortality Data, Disaster Engineering and Thoughts on Depopulation 2008
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Control of U.S. Sugar's land could allow the district to change the flow of the water - letting it move south from Lake Okeechobee to the Everglades, as it did for thousands of years, rather than dumping it into the ocean through the St. Lucie and Caloosahatchee rivers.
Pour some sugar on me Sinfonian 2008
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His crews dredged a deep channel in the Caloosahatchee and dynamited limestone falls to make canals connecting lakes called Lettuce, Hicpochee, Bonnet, and Flirt.
Dream State Diane Roberts 2008
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Granted, then, that he decides for the west entrances; if he pursued the usual course, Fort Myers, the Caloosahatchee River, and so on, he would undoubtedly realize that he could easily be traced.
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Caloosahatchee there is but little to say in modification of what has already been said.
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