| Innoko River | |
|---|---|
 Innoko River in summer | |
  Location of the mouth of the Innoko River in Alaska | |
| Native name | Yooniq (Degexit'an) |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Alaska |
| Census Area | Yukon–Koyukuk |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | south of Cloudy Mountain |
| • location | Innoko National Wildlife Refuge |
| • coordinates | 63°08′55″N 156°01′30″W / 63.14861°N 156.02500°W / 63.14861; -156.02500 |
| • elevation | 2,325 ft (709 m) |
| Mouth | Yukon River |
| • location | 1.5 miles (2.4 km) east of Holy Cross |
| • coordinates | 62°11′45″N 159°43′15″W / 62.19583°N 159.72083°W / 62.19583; -159.72083 |
| • elevation | 26 ft (7.9 m) |
| Length | 805 km (500 mi) |
| Basin size | 36,517 km (14,099 sq mi) 34,981.3 km (13,506.4 sq mi) |
| Discharge | |
| • location | Holy Cross (near mouth) |
| • average | 335.467 m/s (11,846.9 cu ft/s) |
The Innoko River (/ɪˈnoʊkoʊ/; (Deg Xinag: Yooniq) is a 500-mile (800 km) tributary of the Yukon River in the U.S. state of Alaska. It flows north from its origin south of Cloudy Mountain in the Kuskokwim Mountains and then southwest to meet the larger river across from Holy Cross.
Most of its upper portion flows through the Innoko National Wildlife Refuge. The entire river is within the Yukon–Koyukuk Census Area.
Innoko is a Deg Hit’an name for the river. The Russian colonial administrators also called the river Shiltonotno, Legon or Tlegon, Chagelyuk or Shageluk and Ittege at various times in the 19th century.
See also
References
- ^ "Innoko River". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. March 31, 1981. Retrieved September 30, 2013.
- Derived by entering source coordinates in Google Earth.
- "Rivers Network". 2020. Archived from the original on 2022-08-08. Retrieved 2022-04-07.
- "Rivers Network". 2020. Archived from the original on 2022-08-08. Retrieved 2022-04-07.
- ^ Alaska Atlas & Gazetteer (7th ed.). Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. 2010. pp. 100, 131. ISBN 978-0-89933-289-5.
- Bright, William (2004). Native American Place Names of the United States. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. p. 184. ISBN 0-8061-3576-X. Retrieved November 7, 2011.
External links
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