The German River is the principal tributary of the North Fork of the Shenandoah River, flowing for 14.7 miles (23.7 km) in the U.S. state of Virginia. The river originates in northern Rockingham County, just east of the West Virginia border, in the George Washington National Forest, near the crest of Shenandoah Mountain in the Allegheny Mountains.
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