The Puskwaskau River is a short river in

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. It is a tributary of the

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flowing westwards in the

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. Its waters flow through the Smoky River,

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and Mackenzie River into the

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. The name of the river originates from the

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word for ''short grass''. The

Puskwaskau Formation The Smoky Group is a stratigraphical unit of Late Cretaceous age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. It takes the name from the Smoky River, and was first described in outcrops along the banks of the Smoky River, Spirit River and Pouce Co ...

, a stratigraphical unit of the

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, was named for the river.

Course

The river originates from the Puskwaskau Lake in the Sturgeon Heights, at an elevation of , north-west from Valleyview. It flows north-west and receives the waters of Little Puskwaskau River before being crossed by Highway 676. It continues flowing in a western direction through a deep canyon before it empties in the

, west of Teepee Creek, at an elevation of , west of its origin.

Tributaries

*Puskwaskau Lake *

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* {{authority control Rivers of Alberta

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Tributaries

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