The Fraser Plateau and Basin Complex is an
ecoregion, as defined by the
World Wildlife Fund. It encompasses the middle reaches of the watershed of the
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 ...
as it traverses the northern part of the
Interior Plateau of
British Columbia. The WWF ecoregion is similar in description to two of the ecoregions within
Environment Canada's ''
Montane Cordillera
The Montane Cordillera Ecozone, as defined by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), is an ecozone in south-central British Columbia and southwestern Alberta, Canada (an ecozone is equivalent to a Level I ecoregion in the United St ...
Ecozone:'' ''The Fraser Basin'' and the ''Fraser Plateau.'' Much of the Fraser Plateau is underlain by
volcanic rocks which have steep
escarpments along
rivers and
creeks and almost flat upper surfaces.
Physiographically, the Fraser Basin is a section of the larger Northern Plateaus province, which in turn is part of the larger
Intermontane Plateaus physiographic division.
See also
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List of ecoregions in Canada (WWF)
References
External links
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* Environment Canad
Montane Cordillera Ecozone
Temperate coniferous forests
Ecozones and ecoregions of British Columbia
Forests of British Columbia
Central Interior of British Columbia
Fraser River
Interior Plateau
Natural history of British Columbia
Physiographic sections
Nearctic ecoregions
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