Innoko River | |
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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 [1] |
• elevation | 2,325 ft (709 m) [2] |
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 [1] |
• elevation | 26 ft (7.9 m) [1] |
Length | 805 km (500 mi) [1] |
Basin size | 36,517 km2 (14,099 sq mi) 34,981.3 km2 (13,506.4 sq mi) [3] |
Discharge | |
• location | Holy Cross (near mouth) |
• average | 335.467 m3/s (11,846.9 cu ft/s) [4] |
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. [1] 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. [5]
Most of its upper portion flows through the Innoko National Wildlife Refuge. [5] The entire river is within the Yukon–Koyukuk Census Area. [1]
Innoko is a Deg Hit’an name for the river. [6] The Russian colonial administrators also called the river Shiltonotno, Legon or Tlegon, Chagelyuk or Shageluk and Ittege at various times in the 19th century. [1]