Lillooet River

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Lillooet River
Data
location British Columbia (Canada)
River system Fraser River
Drain over Harrison River  → Fraser River  → Pacific Ocean
origin Lillooet Glacier
50 ° 44 ′ 31 ″  N , 123 ° 43 ′ 48 ″  W
Source height approx.  1100  m
muzzle Harrison Lake Coordinates: 49 ° 44 '50 "  N , 122 ° 8' 44"  W 49 ° 44 '50 "  N , 122 ° 8' 44"  W.
Mouth height 12  m
Height difference approx. 1088 m
Bottom slope approx. 5.4 ‰
length approx. 200 km
Catchment area approx. 6070 km²
Discharge at gauge 08MG005
A Eo : 2100 km²
Location: 97 km above the mouth 		MQ 1914/2016
Mq 1914/2016
 		125 m³ / s
59.5 l / (s km²)
Left tributaries Birkenhead River
Right tributaries Meager Creek , Ryan River , Green River
Flowing lakes Silt Lake , Lillooet Lake , Little Lillooet Lake
Communities Pemberton

The Lillooet River is an approximately 200 km long river in the Canadian province of British Columbia .

The Lillooet River is fed by the Lillooet Glacier at an altitude of about 1100  m . Initially, the Lillooet River flows through Silt Lake , which has formed as a glacial rim lake below the Lillooet Glacier. The headwaters are around 85 km northwest of Pemberton and Whistler . The Lillooet River flows in a predominantly south-easterly direction through the Pacific Ranges , a sub-range of the southern Coast Mountains and finally flows into the northern end of Harrison Lake .

The approximately 95 km long upper valley ends in Lillooet Lake near the former Port Pemberton , a place from which gold prospectors continued towards Lillooet from 1858 in order to get from there to the Fraser River ( Fraser Canyon gold rush ). The Upper Lillooet Provincial Park was created in 1997 on the upper reaches of the river and has an area of ​​almost 200 km². The lower half of the upper reaches forms an agriculturally used region called Pemberton Valley , which is also known as the "Spud Valley" ("Knollental"). 12 km above Pemberton, the river flows into Little Lillooet Lake . Lillooet Lake, a 25 km long lake, lies between the mountains of Garibaldi Provincial Park to the west and the Lillooet Ranges to the east.

At the gauge near Pemberton the mean discharge is 125 m³ / s. The highest discharges are measured during the melting of the glaciers in the months of June to August.

Several Indian groups who belong to the St'at'imc live along the river . The Xa'xtsa live near Port Douglas on upper Harrison Lake , the Skátin around Skookumchuck Hot Springs on the Lillooet River, where the Samahquam also live. The group at Mount Currie was also called the Mount Currie Indian Band according to where they lived .

Behind the abandoned Skatin settlement of Skookumchuck , where this group of the In-SHUCK-ch lived, the river continues and flows into Harrison Lake after 55 km .

The continuation of the river is called the Harrison River . This river flows into the Fraser River near Chehalis .

The main tributaries are the Meager Creek , Ryan River , Green River, and Birkenhead River .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Government of Canada: Historical Hydrometric Data Search Results: Station 08MG005