Chungo Creek is a large creek close to
Nordegg
Nordegg is a hamlet in west-central Alberta, Canada within Clearwater County. It is located in the North Saskatchewan River valley in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, just east of the intersection of the David Thompson Highway and the Hig ...
in
Western Alberta,
Canada
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. It starts at a mountain lake called Upper Mons Lake, and eventually empties into the
Blackstone River (Alberta)
Blackstone River is a medium-sized river originating in the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies. It is a tributary of the Brazeau River, which in turn flows into the North Saskatchewan River.
The Blackstone forms at the base of a geological fea ...
.
Chungo is a word derived from the
Stoney language meaning "trail".
Tributaries
*Seepage Creek
*Mons Creek
*Upper Hansen Creek
*Dorothy Creek
*Clark Creek
Fish species
The most common fish of the Chungo Creek is the
bull trout. There is also
westslope cutthroat,
brook
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*Brook+, an explicit data-parallel C compiler
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and
brown trout
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and a small population of
mountain whitefish further down the creek.
See also
*
List of Alberta rivers
References
Rivers of Alberta
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