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River in Alaska, United States From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Iditarod River is a 325-mile (523 km) tributary of the Innoko River in the U.S. state of Alaska.[1] The river begins north of Chuathbaluk and the Russian Mountains and flows northeast and then west to meet the larger river near Holikachuk.[3]
Iditarod River | |
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Location | |
Country | United States |
State | Alaska |
Census Area | Bethel, Yukon–Koyukuk |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | north of the Russian Mountains |
• location | north of Chuathbaluk on the Kuskokwim River, Bethel Census Area |
• coordinates | 61°46′54″N 158°55′44″W[1] |
• elevation | 1,103 ft (336 m)[2] |
Mouth | Innoko River |
• location | 25 miles (40 km) northeast of Holikachuk, Yukon–Koyukuk Census Area |
• coordinates | 63°01′46″N 158°45′57″W[1] |
• elevation | 56 ft (17 m)[1] |
Length | 325 mi (523 km)[1] |
Iditarod is an Anglicization of the Deg Hit’an (Athabascan) name for the river, Haiditirod or Haidilatna,[1] which is probably an English version of the name of a village on the river, that may have corresponded with the village called Iditarod in the 1900s.
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