The Kotaneelee River is a river in the
Northwest Territories
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of
Canada
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.
[Archer, Laurel. ''Northern British Columbia Canoe Trips: Volume One''. Australia, Rocky Mountain Books, 2011. 297.] It is a tributary of the
Liard River
The Liard River of the Boreal forest of Canada, 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 sout ...
.
It gives the name to the
Kotaneelee Formation, a
stratigraphical
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Stratigraphy has three related subfields: lithostrati ...
unit of the
Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin
The Western Canada Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) underlies of Western Canada including southwestern Manitoba, southern Saskatchewan, Alberta, northeastern British Columbia and the southwest corner of the Northwest Territories. This vast sedimentary b ...
.
Course
The Kotaneelee River originates in
Yukon
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, just west of the
Northwest Territories
The Northwest Territories is a federal Provinces and territories of Canada, territory of Canada. At a land area of approximately and a 2021 census population of 41,070, it is the second-largest and the most populous of Provinces and territorie ...
border, on the eastern slopes of the La Biche Range, at an elevation of . It flows west into the Northwest Territories, then south-east between the La Biche Range and the Northern Kotaneelee Range. It turns again eastwards and separates the Northern and Southern Kotaneelee Ranges. After receiving the waters of the Chinkeh Creek, it turns south and flows parallel and to the west of the Liard Range of the
Franklin Mountains. It turns around Mount Pointed and heads east, passing north of Mount Martin and south of Fisherman Lake before it flows into the
Liard River
The Liard River of the Boreal forest of Canada, 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 sout ...
, upstream from
Fort Liard
Fort Liard (Slavey language: ''Echaot'l Koe'' "people from the land of the giants" or ''Acho Dene Kue'') is a hamlet in the Dehcho Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada. It is located north of the British Columbia border. It became access ...
, at an elevation of .
Tributaries
*Chinkeh Creek - left tributary
See also
*
List of rivers of the Northwest Territories
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References
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Rivers of the Northwest Territories
Rivers of Yukon