Chilcotin Forest is an unincorporated settlement in the

Chilcotin District The Chilcotin () region of British Columbia is usually known simply as "the Chilcotin", and also in speech commonly as "the Chilcotin Country" or simply Chilcotin. It is a plateau and mountain region in British Columbia on the inland lee of the C ...

of the

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. It is located near Canadian Forces Camp Chilcotin and was also originally named Ninkynee, meaning "Indian's Own" in the Chilcotin language, a reference to it being the location of the Chilcotin Forest Indian Training Centre, but this name was met with opposition by local non-native residents shortly after its designation in 1967.

Climate

There is a weather station at Twan Lake, which is about north of Chilcotin Forest, on the

Chilcotin Plateau The Chilcotin Plateau is part of the Fraser Plateau, a major subdivision of the Interior Plateau of British Columbia. The Chilcotin Plateau is physically near-identical with the region of the same name, i.e. "the Chilcotin", which lies between ...

.Like much of the Chilcotin Plateau, Twan Lake has a

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''Dfc''), with relatively low precipitation.

References

Populated places in the Chilcotin Unincorporated settlements in British Columbia {{cariboo-geo-stub