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list of British Columbia rivers The following is a partial list of rivers of British Columbia, organized by watershed. Some large creeks are included either because of size or historical importance (See Alphabetical List of British Columbia rivers ). Also included are lakes th ...
, which is in order of watershed locations


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Adam River The Adam River is a river on northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, flowing north into the Johnstone Strait , image = Pacific Ranges over Johnstone Strait.jpg , image_size = 250px , alt = , ...
* Adams River *
Akie River Akie may refer to: * Akie people * Akie language * Akie (given name) {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ...
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Alces River The Alces River, is a river in Northeastern British Columbia, Canada, a tributary of the Peace River The Peace River (french: links=no, rivière de la Paix) is a river in Canada that originates in the Rocky Mountains of northern British Columbia ...
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Alouette River The Alouette River is a tributary of the Pitt River in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The Alouette River was known as the Lillooet River until 1914, at which time its name was changed to avoid confusion with the much larger Lillooet Ri ...
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Alsek River The Alsek River (; Tlingit ''Aalseix̱' '') is a wilderness river flowing from Yukon into Northern British Columbia and into Alaska. It enters the Gulf of Alaska at Dry Bay. Most of the Alsek River's basin is within protected wilderness areas an ...
* Anderson River * Artlish River * Ash River * Asitka River * Atleo River *
Atlin Lake Atlin Lake ( Lingít: ''Áa Tlein'') is the largest natural lake in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The northern tip of the lake is in Yukon, as is Little Atlin Lake. However, most of the lake lies within the Atlin District of British ...
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Atnarko River The Atnarko River is a river in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Course The Atnarko River flows originates at Charlotte Lake. It flows generally west for approximately , joining the Telchako River to form the Bella Coola River. For muc ...
* Ayton Creek * Azure River


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* Bancroft Creek * Barrière River * Bear River * Bear River *
Beatton River The Beatton River is a tributary of the Peace River, flowing generally east, then south through north-eastern British Columbia, Canada. The river rises at Pink Mountain, about west of the Alaska Highway hamlet of the same name, and flows genera ...
* Beaver River *
Bedwell River The Bedwell River is in the Clayoquot Sound region on the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. The river flows into Bedwell Sound, which lies northeast of Meares Island and Tofino. Name origin Formerly named the Bear River by Capt ...
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Bella Coola River The Bella Coola River is a major river on the Pacific slope of the Coast Mountains in southern British Columbia. The town of Bella Coola is at its mouth on North Bentinck Arm. Bella Coola Indian Reserve No. 1 the location of the main community t ...
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Benson River Benson may refer to: Animals *Benson (fish), largest common carp caught in Britain Places Geography Canada * Rural Municipality of Benson No. 35, Saskatchewan; rural municipality *Benson, Saskatchewan; hamlet United Kingdom * Benson, Oxfordshir ...
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Besa River Besa River is a river in northern British Columbia, Canada. It is a tributary of the Prophet River. The river flows through the Muskwa Ranges, and is the backbone of the Redfern-Keily Provincial Park, part of the larger Muskwa-Kechika Management ...
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Birkenhead River The Birkenhead River, formerly known as the Portage River, the Pole River and the Mosquito River, is a major tributary of the Lillooet River, which via Harrison Lake and the Harrison River is one of the major tributaries of the lower Fraser River. ...
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Bishop River The Bishop River is a river in the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains, flowing west from the western edge of the Lillooet Icecap to join the Southgate River east of the Homathko Icefield. Bishop River Provincial Park surrounds the upper cou ...
* Black River *
Blanchard River The Blanchard River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed May 19, 2011 tributary of the Auglaize River in northwestern Ohio in the United States. It drains a primarily rur ...
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Bloedel Creek Julius Harold Bloedel (March 4, 1864 – September 21, 1957) was an American businessman and entrepreneur who operated primarily in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States and Canada. Biography Born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, Bloedel mo ...
* Blue River * Blueberry River *
Bonaparte River The Bonaparte River is a tributary of the Thompson River, joining it at the community of Ashcroft, British Columbia. The river is about long, including the length of Bonaparte Lake. Rising on the Silwhoiakun Plateau to the northwest of Kamloops, B ...
* Bowron River *
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Bridge River The Bridge River is an approximately long river in southern British Columbia. It flows south-east from the Coast Mountains. Until 1961, it was a major tributary of the Fraser River, entering that stream about six miles upstream from the town of ...
* Browns River *
Bulkley River The Bulkley River in British Columbia is a major tributary of the Skeena River. The Bulkley is long with a drainage basin covering . Much of the Bulkey is paralleled by Highway 16. It flows west from Bulkley Lake past Perow and is joined near ...
* Bull River * Burman River


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Cadwallader Creek Cadwallader Creek is an important tributary of the Hurley River in the Bridge River Country of the British Columbia Interior, Canada, most notable for its role as the home of the Bralorne and Pioneer Mines and associated gold claims and workings. ...
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Cameron River The Cameron River is a river of New Zealand. It flows southeast from the slopes of Mount Arrowsmith in the Southern Alps / Kā Tiritiri o te Moana, reaching Lake Stream just to the north of the outflow from Lake Heron. The longer Ashburton River ...
* Cameron River *
Campbell River (Semiahmoo Bay) The Campbell River passes through Surrey and Langley, British Columbia, Canada, entering Semiahmoo Bay at the Semiahmoo Indian Reserve, which lies between the City of White Rock and Peace Arch Park on the international boundary. Originally labe ...
* Campbell River (Vancouver Island) *
Canoe River The Canoe River is a river in southeastern Massachusetts. It is longU.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed April 1, 2011 and part of the Taunton River Watershed. The Canoe R ...
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Capilano River The Capilano River flows from north to south through the Coast Mountains on Vancouver's North Shore between West Vancouver and North Vancouver (district municipality) and empties into Burrard Inlet, opposite Stanley Park. The river is one of three ...
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Cariboo River The Cariboo River is a tributary of the Quesnel River, one of the main tributaries of the Fraser River, in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It flows through the Cariboo region of the British Columbia Interior, southeast of Prince George. ...
* Carmanah Creek * Castle Creek * Caycuse River *
Cayoosh Creek Cayoosh Creek is a northeast-flowing tributary of the Seton River in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The name Cayoosh Creek remains on the bridge-sign crossing the stream on BC Highway 99 and continues in use locally to refer to the ...
* Cervus Creek *
Cheakamus River The Cheakamus River (pron. CHEEK-a-mus) is a tributary of the Squamish River, beginning on the west slopes of Outlier Peak in Garibaldi Provincial Park upstream from Cheakamus Lake on the southeastern outskirts of the resort area of Whistler. T ...
* Chehalis River *
Chemainus River The Chemainus River is located on southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Its source is in the Vancouver Island Ranges, and it flows eastwards to the Strait of Georgia near the town of Chemainus, British Columbia. The valley that surr ...
* Cheslatta River *
Chilanko River The Chilanko River is a river in the Chilcotin region of the Central Interior region of the Canadian province of British Columbia. The name of the river derives from a Chilcotin word meaning "many beaver river". Course The Chilanko River flo ...
* Chilcat River (sp. Chilkat in Alaska) *
Chilcotin River The Chilcotin River /tʃɪlˈkoʊtɪn/ located in Southern British Columbia, Canada is a long tributary of the Fraser River. The name Chilcotin comes from Tŝilhqot’in, meaning "ochre river people," where ochre refers to the mineral used by ...
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Chilko River The Chilko River is a river in the Chilcotin District of the Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada, flowing northeast from Chilko Lake to the Chilcotin River. Its main tributary is the Taseko River. The Chilko is the Chilcotin River's mai ...
* China Creek * Chipman Creek * Chischa River * Chowade River * Chukachida River *
Churn Creek Churn Creek is a tributary of the Fraser River in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Course Churn Creek flows generally north before turning northeast on its final leg through grasslands, joining the Fraser River just south of the headquar ...
* Chute Creek *
Clayoquot River Clayoquot is an anglicization of the Nuu-chah-nulth language name "Tla-o-qui-aht", one of the indigenous tribes of the region so named. It may refer to: *Clayoquot, British Columbia, historically also known as Port Cox, a community on Stubbs Islan ...
* Clearwater River *
Clore River Clore is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Charles Clore (1904–1979), British financier, retail and property magnate and philanthropist * G. Marius Clore (born 1955), British/American molecular biophysicist *Joanna Clore, char ...
* Coal River * Coldwater River (from Coquihalla Pass) * Colquitz Creek *
Columbia River The Columbia River (Upper Chinook: ' or '; Sahaptin: ''Nch’i-Wàna'' or ''Nchi wana''; Sinixt dialect'' '') is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. The river rises in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia, C ...
* Comox Creek * Conuma River *
Coquihalla River The Coquihalla River (originally or more recently and popularly ) is a tributary of the Fraser River in the Cascade Mountains of the Canadian province of British Columbia. It originates in the Coquihalla Lakes and empties into the Fraser River ...
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Coquitlam River The Coquitlam River ( /koʊˈkwɪtləm/ or /kəˈkwɪtləm/) is a tributary of the Fraser River in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The river's name comes from the word Kʷikʷəƛ̓əm which translates to "Red fish up the river". The na ...
* Corrigan Creek * Cottonwood * Cous Creek * Cowichan River * Craig River * Crooked River *
Cruickshank River Cruickshank is a Scottish surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Adrian Cruickshank (born 1936), Australian politician * Alexander M. Cruickshank (1919–2017), American chemist * Andrew Cruickshank (1907–1988), Scottish actor * ...
* Cypress River


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* Dall River *
Darling River The Darling River ( Paakantyi: ''Baaka'' or ''Barka'') is the third-longest river in Australia, measuring from its source in northern New South Wales to its conflu ence with the Murray River at Wentworth, New South Wales. Including its longes ...
* Davie River *
Deadman River The Deadman River, also known as the Deadman's River, Deadman Creek or Deadman's Creek, is a tributary of the Thompson River in the British Columbia Interior of British Columbia, Canada. It is about in length. Name The river's name dates back to ...
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Dean Channel Dean Channel is the upper end of one of the longest inlets of the British Columbia Coast, from its head at the mouth of the Kimsquit River. The Dean River, one of the main rivers of the Coast Mountains, enters Dean Channel about below the head ...
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Dean River The Dean River is one of the major rivers of the Kitimat Ranges subrange of the southern Coast Mountains in British Columbia. It begins at Aktaklin Lake on the Chilcotin Plateau and winds north around the Rainbow Range to enter Dean Channel at th ...
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Dease River The Dease River flows through northwestern British Columbia, Canada and is a tributary of the Liard River. The river descends from Dease Lake, though its ultimate origin is in the headwaters of Little Dease Creek at Snow Peak, approximately we ...
* Decker Lake *
Doig River The Doig River is a river in Alberta and northern British Columbia, Canada. It originates on the northern fringes of Peace River Country in northern Alberta, south of the Chinchaga Wildland Park, in the Halverson Ridge of the Clear Hills, then ...
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Doré River The Doré River is a tributary of the Fraser River in the Canadian province of British Columbia. According to a trapper named Jack Damon, the river was originally called Fifty Mile Creek and was given the name doré, French for "golden", by a N ...
* Drinkwater Creek * Dudidontu River * Duncan River * Dunedin River * Dunsmuir Creek * Duti River


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Eagle River (Dease River tributary) Eagle River may refer to: Streams In the United States: * Eagle River (Bradfield Canal), Alaska *Eagle River (Colorado), a tributary of the Colorado River * Eagle River (Cook Inlet), Alaska * Eagle River (Favorite Channel), Alaska * Eagle River (M ...
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Eagle River (Shuswap Lake) The Eagle River is a river in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The river was named by Walter Moberly after following the flight of eagles and finding Eagle Pass. Course The Eagle River originates in the mountains west of Revelstoke ...
* East Klanawa River * East Tutshi River *
Ecstall River The Ecstall River is a tributary of the Skeena River in the province of British Columbia, Canada. It originates in the Kitimat Ranges, and flows about to the lower tidal reach of the Skeena River at Port Essington, about southeast of Prince Ru ...
* Edmond River * Effingham River *
Elaho River The Elaho River is a c.70 km long river beginning in the Coast Mountains northwest of the towns of Whistler and Pemberton, British Columbia. It is a tributary of the Squamish River and is known for its whitewater rafting and kayaking as wel ...
* Elk River * Elk River * Endako River,
Burns Lake Burns Lake is a rural village in the North-western-Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada, incorporated in 1923. The village had a population of 1,779 as of the 2016 Census. The village is known for its rich First Nations heritage, and ...
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Englishman River Englishman River is a river in the eastern side of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. It starts on the eastern slopes of the Beaufort Range, originating from tiny Jewel Lake and flowing in an easterly direction for , entering the Strait o ...
* Entiako River * Eve River * Exchamsiks River


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* Fantail River *
Finlay River The Finlay River is a 402 km long river in north-central British Columbia flowing north and thence south from Thutade Lake in the Omineca Mountains to Williston Lake, the impounded waters of the Peace River formed by the completion of the W.A. ...
* Firesteel River * Fisherman River *
Fitzsimmons Creek Fitzsimmons Creek is a large creek in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, having its origins at the Fitzsimmons Glacier in the Garibaldi Ranges of the Coast Mountains. For half its length of approximately 10 kilometres, the creek courses a U-shap ...
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Flathead River The Flathead River ( fla, label=Salish, člq̓etkʷ ntx̣ʷetkʷ, , kut, kananmituk), in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Montana, originates in the Canadian Rockies to the north of Glacier National Park and flows southwest into Flath ...
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Fleet River The River Fleet is the largest of London's subterranean rivers, all of which today contain foul water for treatment. Its headwaters are two streams on Hampstead Heath, each of which was dammed into a series of ponds—the Hampstead Ponds and ...
* Flemer River *
Fontas River The Fontas River, originally Fantasque's River, after the name of a chief of the Sekani people, is a river in northeastern British Columbia, Canada, having its origin in northwestern Alberta, Canada. It joins the Sikanni Chief River southeast of th ...
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Fort Nelson River The Fort Nelson River, often shortened to simply the Nelson River, is in north-eastern British Columbia, Canada. It flows generally north-westward to the Liard River, a tributary of the Mackenzie River, which empties into the Arctic Ocean. The ...
* Fox River *
Franklin River The Franklin River is a major perennial river located in the Central Highlands and western regions of Tasmania, Australia. The river is located in the Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park at the mid northern area of the Tasmanian Wilderne ...
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Fraser River The Fraser River is the longest river within British Columbia, Canada, rising at Fraser Pass near Blackrock Mountain in the Rocky Mountains and flowing for , into the Strait of Georgia just south of the City of Vancouver. The river's annual d ...
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Frog River The Frog River is a tributary of the Kechika River in Northern British Columbia, Canada. The river originates from the Frog Lakes, and goes on to Dune Za Keyih Provincial Park and Protected Area, and acts as the border of the park for an extended ...


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Gataga River The Gataga River is a river in the Northern Rockies of British Columbia, Canada. It is a tributary of the Kechika River The Kechika River is a tributary of the Liard River, about long, in northern British Columbia, Canada. The Kechika flows ge ...
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Gates River The Gates River is a short river in the Lillooet Country of the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada. Approximately 14.5 km in length, it flows generally northeast from the outlet of Birken Lake (aka Gates Lake or Summit Lake) to it ...
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Gitnadoix River The Gitnadoix River is a tributary of the Skeena River in the province of British Columbia, Canada. It originates in the Kitimat Ranges, and flows about north to the Skeena River, about west of Terrace.Length measured using Google Maps path too ...
* Gladys River * Goat River * Gold River *
Goldstream River The Goldstream River is a tributary of the Columbia River, joining that stream via the Lake Revelstoke reservoir after running largely west from the heart of the northern Selkirk Mountains. The river's name derives from the Big Bend Gold Rush ...
* Goodspeed River *
Gordon River The Gordon River is a major perennial river located in the central highlands, south-west, and western regions of Tasmania, Australia. Course and features The Gordon River rises below Mount Hobhouse in the Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National ...
* Gossen Creek * Graham River *
Grayling River Grayling River is a river in Canada. It is located in the province of British Columbia, in the central part of the country, 3 600 km west of the capital, Ottawa Ottawa (, ; Canadian French: ) is the capital city of Canada. It is locate ...
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Green River Green River may refer to: Rivers Canada * Green River (British Columbia), a tributary of the Lillooet River *Green River, a tributary of the Saint John River, also known by its French name of Rivière Verte *Green River (Ontario), a tributary of ...
* Greenstone Creek * Gun Creek * Gundahoo River


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* Hackett River *
Halfway River The Halfway River is a tributary of the Peace River in northeastern British Columbia, Canada. The river originates in the Muskwa Ranges at an elevation of . It flows from Robb Lake, between Mount Kenny and Mount Robb, then flows east to Pink Moun ...
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Harrison River The Harrison River is a short but large tributary of the Fraser River, entering it near the community of Chehalis, British Columbia, Canada. The Harrison drains Harrison Lake and is the ''de facto'' continuation of the Lillooet River, which feeds ...
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Hayes River The Hayes River is a river in Northern Manitoba, Canada, that flows from Molson Lake to Hudson Bay at York Factory. It was historically an important river in the development of Canada and is now a Canadian Heritage River and the longest naturall ...
* Heber River * Hendon River *
Herrick Creek Herrick may refer to: Places ;Australia *Herrick, Tasmania, a locality ;United States *Herrick, Illinois *Herrick, Ohio *Herrick, South Dakota *Herrick Township, Knox County, Nebraska *Herrick Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania *Herrick Towns ...
* Hesquiat River * Homan River *
Homathko River The Homathko River is one of the major rivers of the southern Coast Mountains of the Canadian province of British Columbia. It is one of the few rivers that penetrates the range from the interior Chilcotin Country to the coastal inlets of the P ...
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Horsefly River The Horsefly River is a river in the Cariboo district of British Columbia, Canada. Originating near the Wells Gray Provincial Park, it flows into Quesnel Lake, the source of the Quesnel River which in turn is a major tributary of the Fraser Rive ...
* Houston River *
Hurley River The Hurley River is a major tributary of the Bridge River of west-central British Columbia that was earlier known as the South Fork of that larger river. It was for a while known as "Hamilton's River" after Danny Hamilton, an American who was amon ...


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Illecillewaet River The Illecillewaet River is a tributary of the Columbia River located in British Columbia, Canada. Fed by the Illecillewaet Glacier in Glacier National Park, the river flows approximately to the southwest,Ingenika River The Ingenika River is a river located in the Canadian boreal forest, in the province of British Columbia. The surroundings of the Ingenika River are mainly coniferous forest. The area around the river is almost uninhabited, with fewer than two in ...
* Inhini River *
Inklin River The Inklin River (Lingít: ''Héen Tlein'') is a tributary of the Taku River in the northwest part of the province of British Columbia, Canada. It originates at the confluence of its two main tributaries, the Nahlin River and the Sheslay River an ...
* Iron River *
Iskut River The Iskut River, located in the northwest part of the province of British Columbia is the largest tributary of the Stikine River, entering it about above its entry into Alaska. From its source at Kluachon Lake the Iskut River flows south and wes ...


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* Jack Elliott Creek * Jacklah River *
Jennings River The Jennings River is a river in far northern British Columbia, Canada. It is approximately long. The river was named for William T. Jennings (1846-1906), a civil engineer who, in 1897, assessed various road and railroad routes from the Pacific ...
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Jordan River The Jordan River or River Jordan ( ar, نَهْر الْأُرْدُنّ, ''Nahr al-ʾUrdunn'', he, נְהַר הַיַּרְדֵּן, ''Nəhar hayYardēn''; syc, ܢܗܪܐ ܕܝܘܪܕܢܢ ''Nahrāʾ Yurdnan''), also known as ''Nahr Al-Shariea ...


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* Kaouk River * Kasiks River * Katete River *
Kechika River The Kechika River is a tributary of the Liard River, about long, in northern British Columbia, Canada. The Kechika flows generally northwest through the northernmost section of the Rocky Mountain Trench before turning east to join the Liard, a ...
* Kedahda River * Kehlechoa River * Kelsall River *
Kemano River The Kemano River is a river in the Kitimat Ranges of the Coast Mountains in British Columbia, Canada. It flows into Kemano Bay on the Gardner Canal near the Kemano powerhouse and former townsite. See also *List of rivers of British Columbia The ...
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Kennedy River Kennedy may refer to: People * John F. Kennedy (1917–1963), 35th president of the United States * John Kennedy (Louisiana politician), (born 1951), US Senator from Louisiana * Kennedy (surname), a family name (including a list of persons with ...
* Keogh River * Kettle River *
Kicking Horse River The Kicking Horse River is in the Canadian Rockies of southeastern British Columbia, Canada. The river was named in 1858, when James Hector, a member of the Palliser Expedition, reported being kicked by his packhorse while exploring the river. Hec ...
* Kiskatinaw River *
Kispiox River The Kispiox River is a river in the Skeena Country of British Columbia, Canada. It is a tributary of the Skeena River, flowing southeast to meet that river above its confluence with the Bulkley near Hazelton. It forms the eastern boundary of the ...
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Kitimat River The Kitimat River is a river in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It originates in the Kitimat Ranges, near the sources of the Dala River, Kemano River, Atna River, and Clore River. It flows in a curve north, then west, then south, emptyi ...
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Kitlope River The Kitlope River is a river in the Kitimat Ranges in the North Coast of British Columbia, Canada, flowing north for ,Length measured using Google Maps path tool, BCGNIS coordinates, topographic maps, anTopoQuest into the head of the Gardner Canal ...
* Kitnayakwa River * Kitsumkalum River, Kitsumkalum Lake * Klanawa River *
Klappan River The Klappan River is a major tributary of the Stikine River in northwestern British Columbia, Canada. It flows north from an area known as the Sacred Headwaters, which is the source not only of this river but also of the Nass, Skeena, Spatsizi a ...
* Klastline River * Kleanza Creek *
Klehini River The Klehini River is a large, glacially fed stream in the vicinity of Haines in the U.S. state of Alaska. The Klehini River is about long from its source in British Columbia to its mouth at the Chilkat River, of which it is the largest tributar ...
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Klinaklini River The Klinaklini River ( Kwak'wala name T̓linat̓łina also spelled ƛ̓inaƛ̓ina) is one of the major rivers of the Pacific Ranges section of the Coast Mountains in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It originates in the Pantheon Range ...
* Kluatantan River * Kluayetz Creek *
Knight Inlet Knight Inlet (Kwakʼwala: ''Tsawatti'') is one of the principal inlets of the British Columbia Coast, and the largest of the major inlets in the southern part of the Coast. It is fifth in sequence of the great saltwater inlets north from the 49th ...
* Koeye River * Kokish River *
Koksilah River The Koksilah River () is a river on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, flowing northeast to enter Cowichan Bay just southeast of the City of Duncan. Part of the river is protected as Koksilah River Provincial Park. It is the namesake of ...
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Kootenay River The Kootenay or Kootenai river is a major river in the Northwest Plateau, in southeastern British Columbia, Canada, and northern Montana and Idaho in the United States. It is one of the uppermost major tributaries of the Columbia River, the l ...
* Kusawa River *
Kwadacha River Kwadacha, also known as Fort Ware or simple Ware, is an aboriginal community in northern British Columbia, Canada, located in the Rocky Mountain Trench at the confluence of the Finlay River, Finlay, Kwadacha River, Kwadacha and Fox Rivers, in the ...
* Kwinitsa Creek * Kwois Creek


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* Lakelse River * Leckie Creek * Leech River * Leiner River *
Lillooet River The Lillooet River is a major river of the southern Coast Mountains of British Columbia. It begins at Silt Lake, on the southern edge of the Lillooet Crown Icecap about 80 kilometres northwest of Pemberton and about 85 kilometres northwest of W ...
* Lindeman Creek (from Chilkoot Pass) * Little Iskut River * Little Klappan River * Little Nitinat River * Little Oyster River * Little Qualicum River *
Little Rancheria River The Little Rancheria River is a tributary of the Rancheria River having its origin in the northernmost Stikine Ranges of British Columbia, Canada, and joining its parent stream in the Yukon Territory. The Rancheria is a tributary of the Liard and ...
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Little River (Cariboo River tributary) The Little River is a 35 km river in the Cariboo region of British Columbia, Canada, rising in the Cariboo Mountains north of the North Arm of Quesnel Lake and running roughly westwards to enter Cariboo Lake conjointly with the upper Cariboo Ri ...
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Little River (Little Shuswap Lake) The Little River, also known as the Little Shuswap River, is a river in the Shuswap Country region of British Columbia, Canada. It drains Shuswap Lake just below the mouth of the Adams River and feeds Little Shuswap Lake, which is the head of t ...
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Little River (Vancouver Island) The Little River is a tributary of Little River Bay in the Comox Valley region of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada and the namesake of the community of Little River. Little River Bay is an arm of the Strait of Georgia. Nearby, to the eas ...
* Little Tahltan River *
Little Tuya River The Little Tuya River is a tributary of the Tuya River in northwest part of the province of British Columbia, Canada. It flows generally south and east about Length measured using BCGNIS coordinates, topographic maps, anToporama/ref> to join the Tu ...
* Lord River * Loss Creek


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Machmell River The Machmell River, also spelled Machmel River, is a river in the Pacific Ranges of the southern Coast Mountains in British Columbia, Canada. It flows west into Owikeno Lake Owikeno Lake, also Owekeeno Lake, Owekano Lake, Oweekayno Lake and other s ...
* MacJack River *
Mahood River The Mahood River is a river in the northern Shuswap Highland of the Central Interior of British Columbia in Wells Gray Provincial Park. It is long from its source at Mahood Lake to its confluence with the Clearwater River, a tributary of the ...
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Major Hart River The Major Hart River (Ts'íhe Tú in Kaska) is a river in northern British Columbia, Canada, flowing north-east into the Turnagain River, a tributary of the Kechika, south-west of the community of Liard River. Name origin The river is named fo ...
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Mamquam River The Mamquam River is a c.35 km (c. 21 mi) tributary of the Squamish River. Course The Mamquam River originates at Mamquam Pass and starts off by flowing northwest for about 7.5 km. Shortly below its source, the river picks up t ...
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Manson River Manson River is a river located in the Omineca Country region of British Columbia. It flows north into Manson Arm, Williston Lake Williston Lake is a reservoir created by the W. A. C. Bennett Dam and is located in the Northern Interior of British ...
* Marble River * Matthew River * Maxan Lake *
McBride River McBride may refer to: * McBride (surname), the Irish surname held by many notable individuals Places * Sebree, Kentucky, United States, originally known as McBride * McBride, Michigan, United States * McBride, Mississippi, United States * McBride, ...
* McCook River *
McGregor River The McGregor River is a tributary of the Fraser River in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The McGregor River was named for the Provincial Land Surveyor Captain James Herrick McGregor, who fought and died in 1915 at the Second Battle of ...
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McLennan River The McLennan River is a tributary of the Fraser River in the Robson Valley region of British Columbia. The river was named after an engineer on one of the Canadian Pacific Railway surveys in the 1870s. Course The McLennan River originates in th ...
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McLeod River The McLeod River is a river in west-central Alberta, Canada. It forms in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, and is a major tributary of the Athabasca River. __TOC__ Course The river begins just outside the eastern border of Jasper Nation ...
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McNeil River The McNeil River is a river on the eastern drainage of the Alaska Peninsula near its base and conjunction with the Alaska mainland. The McNeil emerges from glaciers and alpine lakes in the mountains of the Aleutian Range. The river's destination ...
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Meager Creek Meager Creek is a creek in the southern Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in British Columbia, Canada. It flows northeast into the Lillooet River approximately northwest of the village of Pemberton and is adjacent to the Upper Lillooet Pro ...
* Megin River * Memkay River *
Mesilinka River Mesilinka River is a river in the Canadian boreal forest. It is located in the province of British Columbia, approximately 3,500 km west of the national capital, Ottawa, and about 900 km north of the provincial capital, Victoria Victoria mo ...
* Middle Memkay River * Milk River * Minaker River * Mitchell River *
Moberly River Moberly is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Charles Moberly (1907–1996), English cricketer * Charles Frederic Moberly Bell (1847–1911), British editor of ''The Times'' * Clarence Moberly (1838–1902), Canadian civil engin ...
* Morice Lake *
Morice River The Morice River is the outflow of Morice Lake south west of Houston, British Columbia, Canada. Morice Lake and Morice River are named after Father Adrien-Gabriel Moricebr>Geographic Name details The Morice has many small creeks joining it along i ...
* Mosquito Creek * Mosque River * Moyena River * Muchalat River *
Murray River The Murray River (in South Australia: River Murray) (Ngarrindjeri: ''Millewa'', Yorta Yorta: ''Tongala'') is a river in Southeastern Australia. It is Australia's longest river at extent. Its tributaries include five of the next six longest r ...
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Murtle River The Murtle River is a river in east-central British Columbia, Canada. It rises from a large unnamed glacier in the Cariboo Mountains at an elevation of and flows southwest for to the head of gigantic Murtle Lake. The river also drains Murtle Lake ...
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Muskwa River The Muskwa River flows through northern British Columbia, Canada. It is a major tributary of the Fort Nelson River - part of the Mackenzie River system. The river rises at Fern Lake in the Bedaux Pass in the Northern Rocky Mountains. From the ...
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Nahatlatch River The Nahatlatch River is a tributary of the Fraser River in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It originates in the Lillooet Ranges of the Coast Mountains and empties into the Fraser River in the Fraser Canyon, north of Boston Bar. Cour ...
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Nahlin River The Nahlin River is a river in far northwestern British Columbia, Canada, flowing northwest to meet the Sheslay River, forming there the commencement of the Inklin River, the main southeast fork of the Taku. The main tributaries of the Nahlin Rive ...
* Nahmint River * Nahwitti River *
Nakina River The Nakina River is a river in northwestern British Columbia, Canada, rising southeast of Atlin Lake and flowing generally southeast to its confluence with the Inklin River at the locality of Inklin, where the two rivers combine to form the Taku Ri ...
* Nakonake River *
Nanaimo River The Nanaimo River is a river on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, located near the city of Nanaimo on the island's east coast. Its headwaters are in the Vancouver Island Ranges of central Vancouver Island and its mouth, the Nanaimo ...
* Narraway River *
Nass River The Nass River is a river in northern British Columbia, Canada. It flows from the Coast Mountains southwest to Nass Bay, a sidewater of Portland Inlet, which connects to the North Pacific Ocean via the Dixon Entrance. Nass Bay joins Portland Inl ...
* Natalkuz Lake * Nation River *
Nautley River Nautley River (Dakelh: Nadlehkoh - ″Where the salmon return creek″ or Nadleh - ″(fish) run″) drains Fraser Lake into the Nechako River in the Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada. Only long, it is one of the shortest rivers in t ...
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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. "Nechako" is an angli ...
* Nesook River * Niagara Creek *
Nicola River The Nicola River , originally French Rivière de Nicholas or Rivière de Nicolas, adapted to Nicolas River, Nicola's River in English, is one of the major tributaries of the Thompson River in the Canadian province of British Columbia, entering th ...
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Nicomekl River The Nicomekl River springs from the ground in Langley, British Columbia and travels west through the city to Surrey's Crescent Beach, where it empties into Mud Bay, the northernmost section of the Boundary Bay of the Strait of Georgia. It has a to ...
* Nimpkish Lake * Nimpkish River * Ningunsaw River * Nitinat River * Noaxe Creek * Nomash River * North Kwadacha River * North Memkay River * North Nanaimo River *
North Thompson River The North Thompson River is the northern branch of the Thompson River, the largest tributary of the Fraser River, in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It originates at the toe of the Thompson Glacier in the Premier Range of the Cariboo Mou ...
* Noyse Creek


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Obo River Obo is the capital of Haut-Mbomou, one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic. It is close to the African Pole of Inaccessibility. Poste Airport is located near the town. History Obo was named after the local Zande chief Or ...
* O'Donnel River *
Okanagan River The Okanogan River (known as the Okanagan River in Canada) is a tributary of the Columbia River, approximately 115 mi (185 km) long, in southern British Columbia and north central Washington. It drains a scenic plateau region called th ...
* Oktwanch River *
Omineca River Omineca River is a river of the North American boreal forest, in northern British Columbia, Canada. It flows into the Williston Lake, and is part of the Peace River basin. It was originally a tributary of the Finlay River before the creation of ...
* Osborn River *
Osilinka River Osilinka River is a river in the Canadian boreal forest. It is located in the province of British Columbia, approximately 3,500 km west of the national capital, Ottawa, and about 900 km north of the provincial capital, Victoria Victoria mos ...
* Ospika River * Oyster River


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* Pachena River * Pack River *
Parsnip River The Parsnip River is a long river in central British Columbia, Canada. It flows generally north-westward from the Parsnip Glacier in the Hart Ranges to the Parsnip Reach of Williston Lake, formed by the impounding of the waters of the Peace Rive ...
* Parton River * Partridge River *
Pend d'Oreille River The Pend Oreille River ( ) is a tributary of the Columbia River, approximately long, in northern Idaho and northeastern Washington (state), Washington in the United States, as well as southeastern British Columbia in Canada. In its passage throu ...
* Perry River *
Petitot River Petitot is a river in northern Alberta and British Columbia, Canada. It is a tributary of the Liard River. Petitot River originates from Bistcho Lake in northwestern Alberta, and flows westwards along the northern borders of Alberta and Bri ...
* Piggott Creek * Pike River * Pine River * Pitman River *
Pitt River The Pitt River in British Columbia, Canada is a large tributary of the Fraser River, entering it a few miles upstream from New Westminster and about 25 km ESE of Downtown Vancouver. The river, which begins in the Garibaldi Ranges of the Coas ...
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Pouce Coupe River The Pouce Coupe River is a major tributary of the Peace River (Canada), Peace River in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada. Its name is officially spelled ''Pouce Coupé River'', but it is commonly written without the acute accent. Originating i ...
* Powell River * Primrose River *
Prophet River The Prophet River is a river in northern British Columbia, Canada. It is a tributary of the Muskwa River. The Prophet River Hotsprings Provincial Park is established on the upper course, and the Prophet River Wayside Provincial Park is located a ...
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Puntledge River The Puntledge River is a small river on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. It joins the Tsolum River to form the Courtenay River, which enters the Strait of Georgia at the city of Courtenay. Name origin The name is derived from that ...


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Qualicum River The Qualicum River or Big Qualicum River ("Where the Dog Salmon Run" in the Pentlatch language) is a river on the east coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, flowing northeast from its headwaters in Horne Lake into the Strait of Geor ...
* Quartz Creek * Quatsie River *
Quesnel River The Quesnel River is a major tributary of the Fraser River in the Cariboo District of central British Columbia. It begins at the outflow of Quesnel Lake, at the town of Likely and flows for about northwest to its confluence with the Fraser at ...
* Quinsam River


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* Rabbit River * Racine Creek * Racing River *
Raging River The Raging River is a tributary of the Snoqualmie River in western Washington state in the United States. It is located in the western foothills of the Cascade Mountains in east central King County, Washington. It gets its name from the large a ...
* Ralph River *
Range Creek Range Creek, rising in the Book Cliffs in Emery County, Utah, is a high tributary of the Green River, a major tributary of the Colorado River. The creek flows year around. It has been nominated for classification as a National Wild and Scenic Riv ...
* Rapid River *
Raush River The Raush River is a tributary of the Fraser River in British Columbia, Canada. It drains a watershed of approximately on the eastern flanks of the Cariboo Mountains, a sub-range of the Columbia Mountains. The river joins the Fraser near the com ...
* Red River *
Redwillow River The Redwillow River is a tributary of the Wapiti River in northern Alberta and north-eastern British Columbia, Canada. It flows through the Pouce Coupe Prairie, in the south of Peace River Country. Course The Redwillow River forms in north-eastern ...
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Smoky River The Smoky River is a river in western Alberta, Canada. It is a major tributary of the Peace River. The descriptive name refers to the presence of "smouldering beds of coal in the riverbank" noted by the Cree Indians. It drains an area of . Fro ...
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Alberta Alberta ( ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Ter ...
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Robertson River The Robertson River is a river in Stewart Island/Rakiura, New Zealand. It rises to the east of the Tin Range and flows into the sea east of Port Pegasus. See also *List of rivers of New Zealand This is a list of all waterways named as rivers ...
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Robson River The Robson River is a short but swift, rapid and waterfall-infested river in Mount Robson Provincial Park of British Columbia. It is a tributary of the Upper Fraser River and it originates near Robson Pass, which divides the Robson River and th ...
* Ross River * Rutherford Creek * Ryan River


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* Sahtaneh River * Salmon River * Salmon River * Samotua River * San Jose River * San Josef River * San Juan River * Sand River * Sarita River * Saunders Creek * Schipa River * Serpentine river * Seton Creek * Seymour River * Shawnigan River *
Sheemahant River The Sheemahant River is a river in the Central Coast region of British Columbia, Canada, flowing generally west out of the Pacific Ranges into the head of Owikeno Lake. See also *List of British Columbia rivers The following is a partial list of ...
* Shegunia River * Shepherd Creek *
Sheslay River The Sheslay River is a tributary of the Inklin River in northwest part of the province of British Columbia, Canada. It joins the Nahlin River to form the Inklin River, one of the main tributaries of the Taku River. The lower Sheslay River marks th ...
* Shushartie River *
Shuswap River The basin of the Shuswap River (pronounced /ˈʃuːʃwɑːp/) lies northeast of the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia, originating in the central Monashee Mountains. It is the upper part of the drainage better known to British Columbians as belo ...
* Sicintine River *
Sikanni Chief River The Sikanni Chief River, is a river in the Northern Rocky Mountains region of the northern British Columbia Interior, interior of British Columbia, Canada. Its headwaters are near Mount McCusker, northeast of the head of the Finlay Arm of Williston ...
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Silver Salmon River Silver is a chemical element with the symbol Ag (from the Latin ', derived from the Proto-Indo-European ''h₂erǵ'': "shiny" or "white") and atomic number 47. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it exhibits the highest electrical co ...
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Similkameen River The Similkameen River runs through southern British Columbia, Canada, eventually discharging into the Okanagan River near Oroville, Washington, in the United States. Through the Okanagan River, it drains to the Columbia River. The river is said ...
* Sittakanay River (confluence with the Taku is in Alaska) *
Skagit River The Skagit River ( ) is a river in southwestern British Columbia in Canada and northwestern Washington in the United States, approximately 150 mi (240 km) long. The river and its tributaries drain an area of 1.7 million acres (690,000& ...
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Skeena River The Skeena River is the second-longest river entirely within British Columbia, Canada (after the Fraser River). Since ancient times, the Skeena has been an important transportation artery, particularly for the Tsimshian and the Gitxsan—whose n ...
* Slim Creek * Sloko River * Smith River *
Snake River The Snake River is a major river of the greater Pacific Northwest region in the United States. At long, it is the largest tributary of the Columbia River, in turn, the largest North American river that empties into the Pacific Ocean. The Snake ...
* Somass River * Sombrio River *
Soo River The Soo River is a tributary of the Green River in the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in British Columbia, Canada, joining that river just north of the Resort Municipality of Whistler. Approximately long, it begins on the south flank of ...
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Sooke Lake Sooke Lake is a natural lake and the main reservoir of Greater Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. It is owned and operated by the Capital Regional District and supplies water to approximately 350,000 people. It has a usable water supply of 9 ...
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Sooke River Sooke is a district municipality on the southern tip of Vancouver Island, Canada, by road from Victoria, the capital of British Columbia. Sooke, the westernmost of Greater Victoria's Western Communities, is to the north and west of the Sooke B ...
* South Englishman River * South Nanaimo River * South Sarita River *
South Thompson River The South Thompson River is the southern branch of the Thompson River, the largest tributary of the Fraser River, in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It originates at the outlet of Little Shuswap Lake at the town of Chase and flows appro ...
* South Whiting River *
Southgate River The Southgate River is a river in the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in British Columbia, Canada, entering the head of Bute Inlet, on that province's South Coast, just east of the mouth of the Homathko River at Waddington Harbour. The l ...
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Spatsizi River The Spatsizi River is a tributary of the Stikine River, rising near Mount Gunanoot in the southeastern Spatsizi Plateau, British Columbia. Etymology "Spatsizi" is a phrase from the Sekani language meaning "red goat", a reference to the habit of ...
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Spillimacheen River The Spillimacheen River is a tributary of the Columbia River in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Course The Spillimacheen River originates just east of Glacier National Park. Flowing southeast, it collects the waters of several tributa ...
* Sproat River *
Squamish River The Squamish River is a short but very large river in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Its drainage basin is in size. The total length of the Squamish River is approximately . Course The Squamish River drains a complex of basins in the ...
* Squinguila River * St. Mary's River * Stamp River *
Stave River The Stave River is a tributary of the Fraser, joining it at the boundary between the municipalities of Maple Ridge and Mission, about east of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in the Central Fraser Valley region. Blocked since the 1920s by t ...
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Stein River The Stein River is a tributary of the Fraser River in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The name is derived from the Nlaka'pamux word Stagyn, meaning "hidden place", referring to the fact that the size and extent of the Stein River vall ...
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Stellako River The Stellako River is an long river in the Nechako Plateau region of the Canadian province of British Columbia. It flows from François Lake to Fraser Lake, which joins the Nechako River via the short Nautley River Nautley River (Dakelh: Nadleh ...
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Stikine River The Stikine River is a major river in northern British Columbia (BC), Canada and southeastern Alaska in the United States. It drains a large, remote upland area known as the Stikine Country east of the Coast Mountains. Flowing west and south f ...
* Stranby River * Stuart River (Canada), Stuart River * Stuhini Creek * Sturdee River * Sucowa River * Sukunwa River * Surprise Creek * Sustut River * Sutlahine River * Swannell River * Swanson River * Swift River (Cariboo), Swift River * Swift River (Teslin), Swift River * Sydney River (Vancouver Island), Sydney River


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* Tahini River (NB different from Takhini River, which is in same area and rains the other way) * Tahltan River * Tahsis River * Tahsish River * Tahtsa Reach, Tahtsa Lake * Takhini River * Taku River * Talbot Creek (Vancouver Island), Talbot Creek * Tanzilla River * Taseko River * Tats Creek * Tatsatua Creek * Tatshenshini River * Taylor River (Vancouver Island), Taylor River * Tchaikazan River * Teihsum River * Telkwa River * Teslin River * Tetachuck Lake * Tetsa River * Thelwood Creek * Thompson River * Tkope Creek * Tlupana River * Toad River * Toba Inlet * Toba River (British Columbia), Toba River * Toboggan Creek (Smithers), Toboggan Creek * Tofino Creek * Toodoggone River * Toquart River * Torpy River * Torres Channel * Trent River (Vancouver Island), Trent River * Trout Creek (Endako), Trout Creek? * Trout River (Liard Watershed), Trout River * Tsable River * Tsitika River * Tsolum River * Tsuiquate River * Tuchodi River * Tulsequah River * Turnagain River * Tutshi River (from White Pass) * Tuya River * Tyaughton Creek


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* Ucana River * Unuk River * Upana River * Ursus Creek


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* Vedder River (aka Chilliwack River) * Vents River


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* Walbran Creek * Wannock River * Wap Creek * Wapiti River (
Smoky River The Smoky River is a river in western Alberta, Canada. It is a major tributary of the Peace River. The descriptive name refers to the presence of "smouldering beds of coal in the riverbank" noted by the Cree Indians. It drains an area of . Fro ...
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Alberta Alberta ( ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Ter ...
drainage) * Warneford River * Watt Creek * Waukwaas River * West Kiskatinaw River * West Road River, West Road or Blackwater (British Columbia), Blackwater River * West Toad River * White River (Vancouver Island), White River * Whiting River * Wicked River * Willow River (Fraser), Willow River * Wolf River (Vancouver Island), Wolf River * Wolverine River (Cariboo), Wolverine River * Wolverine River * Woss Creek


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* Yaak River, Yahk River * Yalakom River * Yeth Creek


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* Zeballos River * Zohini Creek * Zymoetz River


See also

*List of British Columbia rivers Lists of rivers of Canada, British Columbia Rivers of British Columbia, British Columbia geography-related lists, Rivers