Liard River
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Key facts
- Country
- Canada
- Province
- British Columbia
- Territories
- Yukon Northwest Territories
- Source
- Mount Lewis
- Location
- Pelly Mountains , Yukon
- Coordinates
- 61°14′12″N 131°37′39″W / 61.23667°N 131.62750°W / 61.23667; -131.62750
- Elevation
- 1,500 m (4,900 ft)
- Mouth
- Mackenzie River
- Length
- 1,115 km (693 mi)
- Basin size
- 277,100 km (107,000 sq mi)
- Average
- 2,434 m /s (86,000 cu ft/s)
- Minimum
- 300 m /s (11,000 cu ft/s)
- Maximum
- 11,000 m /s (390,000 cu ft/s)
- Left
- Frances River (Yukon) , Hyland River , Coal River (Canada) , Smith River (British Columbia) , Graying River , Scatter River , Beaver River (Laird River) , South Nahanni River
- Right
- Meister River , Rancheria River (Yukon) , Dease River , Kechika River , Rabbit River , Vents River , Trout River (British Columbia) , Toad River , Fort Nelson River
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
The Liard River of the North American boreal forest flows through Yukon, British Columbia and the Northwest Territories, Canada. Rising in the Saint Cyr Range of the Pelly Mountains in southeastern Yukon, it flows 1,115 km (693 mi) southeast through British Columbia, marking the northern end of the Rocky Mountains and then curving northeast back into Yukon and Northwest Territories, draining into the Mackenzie River at Fort Simpson, Northwest Territories. The river drains approximately 277,100 km (107,000 sq mi) of boreal forest and muskeg.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Liard River” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
5 mapped locations