The Petaluma River is a river in the California counties of Sonoma and Marin that becomes a tidal slough near its mouth. It springs from farmlands southwest of Cotati and flows generally southward through Petaluma's old town and 10 mi (16 km) of tidal marshes to end in northwest San Pablo Bay.
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