Innoko River

River in Alaska, United States

63°08′55″N 156°01′30″W / 63.14861°N 156.02500°W / 63.14861; -156.02500^[1] • elevation2,325 ft (709 m)^[2] MouthYukon 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^[1]

• elevation

26 ft (7.9 m)^[1]Length805 km (500 mi)^[1]Basin size36,517 km² (14,099 sq mi) 34,981.3 km² (13,506.4 sq mi)^[3]Discharge • locationHoly Cross (near mouth) • average335.467 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]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "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.
^ "Rivers Network". 2020.
^ ^a ^b 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.