Hoodoo River

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title: "Hoodoo River" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["cassiar-land-district", "tributaries-of-the-iskut-river", "rivers-of-the-boundary-ranges", "stikine-country", "tahltan", "tlingit"] description: "River in Canada" topic_path: "general/cassiar-land-district" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoodoo_River" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary River in Canada ::

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Field	Value
name	Hoodoo River
pushpin_map	British Columbia
pushpin_map_caption	Mouth of Hoodoo River
subdivision_type1	Country
subdivision_name1	Canada
subdivision_type2	Province
subdivision_name2	British Columbia
subdivision_type3	District
subdivision_name3	Cassiar Land District
length	10 km
discharge1_avg	8.82 m3/s
source1	Hoodoo Glacier
source1_location	Boundary Ranges
source1_coordinates
source1_elevation	530 m
mouth	Iskut River
mouth_location	Boundary Ranges
mouth_coordinates
mouth_elevation	36 m
basin_size	128 km2,
custom_label	Topo map
custom_data	NTS
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| name = Hoodoo River | name_native = | name_native_lang = | name_other = | name_etymology = | image = | image_caption = | map = | map_size = | map_caption = | pushpin_map = British Columbia | pushpin_map_size = | pushpin_map_caption = Mouth of Hoodoo River | subdivision_type1 = Country | subdivision_name1 = Canada | subdivision_type2 = Province | subdivision_name2 = British Columbia | subdivision_type3 = District | subdivision_name3 = Cassiar Land District | subdivision_type4 = | subdivision_name4 = | subdivision_type5 = | subdivision_name5 = | length = 10 km | width_min = | width_avg = | width_max = | depth_min = | depth_avg = | depth_max = | discharge1_location = | discharge1_min = | discharge1_avg = 8.82 m3/s | discharge1_max = | source1 = Hoodoo Glacier | source1_location = Boundary Ranges | source1_coordinates = | source1_elevation = 530 m | mouth = Iskut River | mouth_location = Boundary Ranges | mouth_coordinates = | mouth_elevation = 36 m | progression = | river_system = | basin_size = 128 km2, | tributaries_left = | tributaries_right = | custom_label = Topo map | custom_data = NTS | extra = The Hoodoo River is a tributary of the Iskut River in the northwest part of the province of British Columbia, Canada, located west of Hoodoo Mountain and the Twin River in Cassiar Land District. From its source in Hoodoo Glacier the Hoodoo River flows south for about 10 km to the Iskut River northwest of the mouth of the Craig River.

The Hoodoo River's watershed covers 128 km2, The river's watershed's land cover is classified as 49.4% snow/glacier, 22.7% barren, 10.6% conifer forest, 9.8% shrubland, and small amounts of other cover.

The mouth of the Hoodoo River is located about 68 km east-northeast of Wrangell, Alaska, about 120 km northwest of Stewart, British Columbia, and about 134 km south of Telegraph Creek, British Columbia.

The Hoodoo River is in the traditional territory of the Tlingit, specifically the Shtax'héen Ḵwáan, commonly known as the Stikine River people. It is also in the asserted traditional territory of the Tahltan First Nation and Iskut First Nation, of the Tahltan people.

Geography

The Hoodoo River originates from the meltwaters of Hoodoo Glacier, a valley glacier that flows from the Andrei Icefield which dominates the mountains north of the Hoodoo River and from which numerous glaciers extend in all directions. This large glacial field is named after the son of Olav Mokievsky-Zubok, a glaciologist who carried out significant glaciological work in the Coast Mountains from the 1960s to the 1970s.

From Hoodoo Glacier the Hoodoo River flows south along the west side of Hoodoo Mountain and through glacial meltwater lakes, then through a coastal western hemlock forest. About 3 km north of the Iskut River the Hoodoo River is joined by its main tributary, an unnamed stream flowing southeast from the glaciers of Surprise Mountain. From this confluence of the two forks, the Hoodoo River continues south through an increasingly braided channel before emptying into the Iskut River.{{cite book |last1= Mussio |first1= Russell |last2= Mussio |first2= Wesley |title= Northern BC Backroad Mapbook |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pBAFEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA51 |accessdate= 22 September 2021 |date= 2018 |publisher= Mussio Ventures |isbn= 978-1-926806-87-7 |pages= 73, 88}}

References

References

1. Derived from BCGNIS, ACME Mapper, topographic maps, and [https://atlas.gc.ca/toporama/en/index.html Toporama]
2. Elevation derived from [[ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model]], using [http://tools.freeside.sk/geolocator/geolocator.html GeoLocator], BCGNIS coordinates, and topographic maps.
3. {{BCGNIS. 17514. Hoodoo River
4. "Hoodoo River".
5. {{BCGNIS. 17510. Hoodoo Glacier
6. Length measured using BCGNIS coordinates, topographic maps, and [https://atlas.gc.ca/toporama/en/index.html Toporama]
7. "Northwest Water Tool". GeoBC, Integrated Land Management Bureau, Ministry of Agriculture and Lands, Government of British Columbia.
8. "Traditional Tlingit Country". San Francisco Tlingit & Haida Community Council.
9. Lindley, Britany Kee’ ya aa. (2017). "Solution Before Pollution: Mining and International Transboundary Rivers in Southeast Alaska". American Indian Law Journal.
10. Rescan Environmental Services. (2012). "Tahltan Nation Traditional Knowledge and Use Desk-based Research Report". Seabridge Gold Inc..
11. (2014). "Global Land Ice Measurements from Space". [[Springer Science+Business Media]].
12. {{BCGNIS. 14021. Surprise Mountain
13. "ACME Mapper 2.2". ACME Laboratories.
14. "Toporama (on-line map and search)". [[Natural Resources Canada]].

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