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]
See also
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.
External links
Media related to Innoko River at Wikimedia Commons
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