Charley River

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Charley River
Estuary of the Charley River into the Yukon River

Estuary of the Charley River into the Yukon River

Data
Water code US :  1400160
location Alaska (USA)
River system Yukon River
Drain over Yukon River  → Bering Sea
Headwaters Mertie Mountains ( Yukon Tanana Highlands )
64 ° 42 ′ 15 ″  N , 144 ° 2 ′ 41 ″  W
Source height approx.  1200  m
muzzle Yukon River Coordinates: 65 ° 19′0 ″  N , 142 ° 46′59 ″  W 65 ° 19′0 ″  N , 142 ° 46′59 ″  W.
Mouth height 209  m
Height difference approx. 991 m
Bottom slope approx. 7.1 ‰
length 140 km
Left tributaries Crescent Creek, Hanna Creek
Right tributaries Copper Creek, Flat Creek, Bonanza Creek
National Wild and Scenic River

The Charley River is a 140 km long left tributary of the Yukon River in the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve in Alaska near the border with the Canadian Yukon Territory .

It rises in the Mertie Mountains , then flows first in a north-westerly, later in a north-easterly direction and flows 90 km northwest of Eagle into the Yukon River.

The river crosses three different topographical regions in its course. First, wide valleys in the highlands, surrounded by mountains with a height of up to 2000  m , then deeply cut river valleys between rocks and cliffs and finally open floodplains, where it meanders through the low flow of the Yukon .

According to a record by Frederick Schwatka , a lieutenant in the United States Army , from 1885, the Alaskan native name for the river was "Traodee". On an unpublished map from 1898, the river was listed as "Charlie River". In 1902, Lieutenant Cantwell of the United States Revenue Cutter Service introduced the spelling "Charley River".

The Charley River and its seven major tributaries, Copper Creek , Bonanza Creek , Hosford Creek , Derwent Creek , Flat-Orthmer Creek , Crescent Creek and Moraine Creek , km with a total length of 335 were in 1980 by the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act as a National Wild and Scenic River designated under the administration of the National Park Service .

Web links

Commons : Charley River  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Charley River in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey
  2. ^ Yukon Charley Rivers National Preserve: Floating the Charley River on nps.gov
  3. ↑ National Wild & Scenic River - Charley River ( Memento June 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive )