Emerald River
The Emerald River is a short river in British Columbia. It is about 6.5 kilometres long and drains the waters of Emerald Lake to the Kicking Horse River.Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Burgess.
Mount Burgess
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Mount Burgess, 2,599 m, is a mountain in Yoho National Park and is part of the President Range in the Canadian Rockies. It is located in the southwest buttress of Burgess Pass in the Emerald River and Kicking Horse River Valleys.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yoho National Park and Field.
Yoho National Park
Photo: HylgeriaK, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Yoho National Park is British Columbia's sister to Alberta's Banff National Park, a world heritage site, on the western side of the continental divide that separates the two provinces.
Field
Photo: Royalbroil, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Field is a cozy mountain village located in Yoho National Park within the Canadian Rockies in Canada. The town served as a base for workers on the Canadian Pacific Railway in its early days, and now hosts a small community of about 170, in addition to hosting the Yoho Park administration building and a number of quaint gift shops, restaurants, and small accommodations.
Emerald River
- Type: River
- Description: watercourse in British Columbia, Canada
- Categories: watercourse and body of water
- Location: British Columbia, Canada, North America
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Latitude
51.4005° or 51° 24′ 2″ northLongitude
-116.54811° or 116° 32′ 53″ westElevation
1,178 metres (3,865 feet)Open location code
9535CF22+5QOpenStreetMap ID
way 429418884OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=riverGeoNames ID
5948558Wikidata ID
Q283416
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Emerald River” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ríu Emerald”
- Cebuano: “Emerald River”
- Dutch: “Emerald River”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر الزمرد”
- Hebrew: “אמרלד (נהר)”
- Hebrew: “אמרלד”
- Irish: “Abhainn Emerald”
- Sindhi: “ايمرلڊ درياھ”
- Spanish: “Emerald River”
- Swedish: “Emerald River”
- Urdu: “ایمرلڈ دریا”
- Venetian: “Fiume Emerald”
- Welsh: “Afon Emerald”
- “Emerald”
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