Kiskatinaw River

Kiskatinaw River

Infobox_River
river_name = Kiskatinaw


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origin = Canadian Rockies Foothills, Thumbler Ridge
mouth = Peace River
basin_countries = CAN
length =
elevation = m to ft|1070|abbr=yes|precision=0
mouth_elevation = m to ft|395|abbr=yes|precision=0
discharge =
watershed =

Kiskatinaw is a small river in north-eastern British Columbia, Canada.

It is a tributary of the Peace River.

The Kiskatinaw Provincial Park is established on the banks of the river, east of the Alaska Highway, along the old alignment of the highway, at the site of a curved wooden bridge. [Cite web|url=http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/explore/parkpgs/kiskatin.html | title= Kiskatinaw Provincial Park|author=Government of British Columbia|accessdate=2008-01-23] The bridge was built during the Second World War, when the Alaska Highway was started. Due to a hairpin curve, the bridge, which took nine months to be completed, was constructed in a curved shape. [Cite web|url=http://www.discoverthepeacecountry.com/htmlpages/kiskatinawparkbc.html| title= Kiskatinaw Park|author=Discover the Peace Country|accessdate=2008-01-23]

Fishing for pike and rainbow trout is an attraction on the lower course of the river. [Cite web|url=http://www.britishcolumbia.com/LakesAndRivers/Rivers/details/?ID=105|title=Kiskatinaw River|author=British Columbia.com|accessdate=2008-01-23]

The river gives the name to the Kiskatinaw Formation, a siliciclastic formation of Carboniferous (Mississippian) age.

Course

The river originates in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, at an elevation of approximately m to ft|1070|abbr=yes|precision=0. It flows north and east, where it receives the waters of Sunderman Creek, the north, flowing by One Island Lake Provincial Park, after which it merges with the West Kiskatinaw River. It continues north trough the Upper Cutbank, then receives the Brassey Creek. It parallels Highway 52, west of Bear Mountain. It is crossed by Highway 97 and then by the Alaska Highway before it turns north-east. It then flows through a canyon until it merges into the Peace River. It flows into the Peace River west of the Alberta/British Columbia, within the limits of the Peace River Corridor Provincial Park, east of Taylor.

ee also

*List of rivers in Canada
*List of British Columbia rivers

References


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