TheWeeki Wachee River is a river inHernando County,Florida,United States. It flows 12 miles (19 km)^[1] westwards fromWeeki Wachee to theGulf of Mexico at the Weeki Wachee estuary. The name is derived from theSeminole:uekiwv /oykéywa, wi:-/ "spring" and-uce /-oci/ "small", signifying either a small spring or an offshoot of a town named Spring. The river is best known for its spring, and theWeeki Wachee Springs attraction built on the premises. The spring is the surfacing point of an underground river, which is the deepest naturally occurring spring in the United States. It measures about 150 feet (46 m) wide and 250 feet (76 m) long, and daily water averages 150 million gallons (644 million liters). The water temperature is a steady 72–74 °F (22–23 °C) year-round.

• Jack B. Martin, Margaret McKane Mauldin:A Dictionary of Creek/Muskogee: With Notes on the Florida and Oklahoma Seminole Dialects of Creek, University of Nebraska Press (2000).ISBN 0-8032-3207-1
• The Miami Herald: "For the mermaids, it's where the show springs eternal", by Jodi Mailander Farrell, 6 August 2006.(via Activa)

28°31′53″N82°37′18″W / 28.5313103°N 82.6216736°W /28.5313103; -82.6216736

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