Taku River
The Taku River is a river running from British Columbia, Canada, to the northwestern coast of North America, at Juneau, Alaska. The river basin spreads across 27,500 square kilometres.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Steve, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tulsequah.
Tulsequah
Town
Tulsequah is an unincorporated locality in northwestern, British Columbia, Canada, populated by the employees of the Polaris-Taku Gold Mine, and subsequent Tulsequah Chief Cu-Pb-Zn Mine on the Tulsequah River. Tulsequah is situated 8 km northeast of Taku River.
Taku River
- Type: River
- Description: watercourse in British Columbia and Alaska
- Categories: stream and body of water
- Location: British Columbia, Canada, North America
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Latitude
58.58201° or 58° 34′ 55″ northLongitude
-133.64146° or 133° 38′ 29″ westElevation
17 metres (56 feet)Open location code
94C8H9J5+RCOpenStreetMap ID
way 1244252136OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=riverGeoNames ID
6161254Wikidata ID
Q2389724
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Taku River” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر تاكو”
- Asturian: “Ríu Taku”
- Catalan: “Taku”
- Cebuano: “Taku River”
- Chinese: “塔库河”
- Dutch: “Taku River”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر تاكو”
- French: “rivière Taku”
- French: “Rivière Taku”
- French: “Taku River”
- French: “Taku”
- German: “Taku River”
- Hebrew: “נהר טאקו”
- Irish: “Abhainn Taku”
- Italian: “Taku”
- Japanese: “タク川”
- Spanish: “Taku”
- Swedish: “Taku River”
- Ukrainian: “Таку (річка)”
- Ukrainian: “Таку”
- Venetian: “Taku”
- Welsh: “Afon Taku”
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Localities in the Area
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