The Swift River is a river that begins in

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and flows southwest into

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to its mouth at the east side of Teslin Lake on the Teslin River system. The river drains the uppermost portion of the

Cassiar Mountains The Cassiar Mountains () are the most northerly group of the Northern Interior Mountains in the Canadian province of British Columbia and also extend slightly into the southernmost Yukon Territory. They lie north and west of the Omineca Mountain ...

and in its lower reaches traverses the Nisutlin Plateau, which lies along the east side of Teslin Lake north of the mouth of the Jennings River, which is to the south of the Swift. The river is one of two in British Columbia known as the Swift, the other of the same name is a tributary to the

Cariboo River The Cariboo River is a tributary of the Quesnel River, one of the main tributaries of the Fraser River, in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It flows through the Cariboo region of the British Columbia Interior, southeast of Prince George ...

in the eastern parts of the region of the same name.

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* Rivers of British Columbia Rivers of Yukon Cassiar Country {{BritishColumbiaInterior-river-stub

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