Khotol River

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Khotol River
Data
Water code US :  1404622
location Alaska ( USA )
River system Yukon River
Drain over Yukon River  → Bering Sea
Confluence of Camp Creek and Gorton Creek in Interior Alaska
64 ° 27 ′ 19 ″  N , 157 ° 52 ′ 20 ″  W
Source height 33  m
muzzle Yukon River Coordinates: 64 ° 2 '12 "  N , 158 ° 43' 39"  W 64 ° 2 '12 "  N , 158 ° 43' 39"  W.
Mouth height 29  m
Height difference 4 m
Bottom slope 0.03 ‰
length 137 km

The Khotol River is a 137 km long left tributary of the Yukon River in western Alaska .

It arises from the confluence of Camp Creek and Gorton Creek in the Innoko National Wildlife Refuge northeast of Kaltag and flows in a south-southwest direction to the confluence with the Yukon River.

On a map from 1861, “Kutulnakt” is entered as the name of the indigenous people for the river. The current name goes back to Father Julius Jette from Nulato , who called "Khotolno" or "Khotol" as a common name among the natives.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gorton Creek in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey
  2. ↑ Khotol River in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey