Muncho Lake
| Muncho Lake | ||
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| View over Muncho Lake | ||
| Geographical location | British Columbia (Canada) | |
| Tributaries | Trout River | |
| Drain | Trout River → Liard River → Mackenzie River | |
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| Coordinates | 58 ° 59 ′ N , 125 ° 47 ′ W | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 820 m | |
| length | 12 km | |
| width | 6 km | |
| Maximum depth | 223 m | |
The Muncho Lake is a 12 km long and up to 223 m deep lake in northern British Columbia in Canada .
The lake is located in the Muncho Lake Provincial Park named after it and the Alaska Highway runs right past it (mile 462 on Highway 97 ). Its water has a jade green color, which it owes to the copper oxide washed out of the rock . It is between 1 and 6 km wide and is known for its abundance of fish. The species of fish found in it include the American char ( lake trout ), the bull trout ( bull trout ), the Prosopium williamsoni ( mountain whitefish ), the arctic grayling ( arctic grayling ), the Catostomus commersonii ( white sucker ) and the Catostomus catostomus ( longnose suckers ).
The name of the lake comes from the language of the Kaska Indians, muncho means something like "big lake".
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- Karl-Wilhelm Berger: Glaciers, Gold and Grizzly Bears: Travel Guide Canada / West with South Alaska . Iwanowski´s Reisebuchverlag 1994, ISBN 3923975414 , p. 561
- Official information sheet on Muncho Lake Provincial Park (pdf, English) (88 kB)
