Nechako River
The Nechako River arises on the Nechako Plateau east of the Kitimat Ranges of the Coast Mountains of British Columbia, Canada, and flows north toward Fort Fraser, then east to Prince George where it enters the Fraser River.Places of Interest
Highlights include Central BC Railway and Forestry Museum and Prince George Railway Station.
Central BC Railway and Forestry Museum
Museum
The Central BC Railway and Forestry Museum is a railway museum in Prince George, British Columbia. Its collection consists of over sixty pieces of rolling stock, ten historical buildings and numerous smaller artifacts on an 8-acre site.
Prince George Railway Station
Railway station
Prince George station is a railway station in Prince George, British Columbia. It is on the Canadian National Railway mainline. Via Rail's Jasper–Prince Rupert train service overnights at this station between Prince Rupert and Jasper.
University Hospital of Northern British Columbia
Hospital
The University Hospital of Northern British Columbia is the largest Level III trauma centre in Northern BC. UHNBC is a teaching hospital that supports the Northern Medical Program, a joint medical program by the UBC Faculty of Medicine and the University of Northern British Columbia for training doctors in British Columbia, Canada.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Prince George.
Prince George
Prince George, locally known as PG, is a city in the North Coast-Nechako region and a major service centre in Northern British Columbia, Canada. It is the largest city north of Kamloops in BC, and known as BC's Northern Capital.Nechako River
- Type: River
- Description: watercourse in British Columbia, Canada
- Category: body of water
- Location: British Columbia, Canada, North America
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Latitude
53.92225° or 53° 55′ 20″ north
Longitude
-122.72997° or 122° 43′ 48″ west
Elevation
565 metres (1,854 feet)
Open location code
945VW7CC+V2
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=water
OpenStreetMap feature
water=river
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Western Panjabi—“Nechako River” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ríu Nechako”
- Bulgarian: “Нечако”
- Cebuano: “Nechako River”
- Dutch: “Nechako River”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر نيتشاكو”
- French: “Nechako Canyon Protected Area”
- French: “Nechako River”
- French: “Nechako”
- German: “Nechako River”
- Irish: “Abhainn Nechako”
- Italian: “Nechako”
- Japanese: “ネチャコ川”
- Kazakh: “Нечако”
- Mingrelian: “ნეჩაკო”
- Russian: “Нечако”
- South Azerbaijani: “نچاکو چایی”
- Spanish: “Nechako”
- Spanish: “Río Nechako”
- Swedish: “Nechako River”
- Swedish: “Nechakofloden”
- Urdu: “نیچاکو دریا”
- Venetian: “Fiume Nechako”
- Welsh: “Afon Nechako”
- Western Panjabi: “دریاۓ نیچاکو”
- “Nechako”
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