The Tchaikazan River is an important tributary of the

Taseko River The Taseko River or Dasiqox in the original Chilcotin, is a tributary of British Columbia's Chilko River, a tributary of the Chilcotin River which joins the Fraser near the city of Williams Lake. The Taseko has its origins at Taylor Pass in ...

in the

Chilcotin District The Chilcotin () region of British Columbia is usually known simply as "the Chilcotin", and also in speech commonly as "the Chilcotin Country" or simply Chilcotin. It is a plateau and mountain region in British Columbia on the inland lee of the Co ...

of the Central Interior of British Columbia, flowing into it from the southwest at the narrows of the

Taseko Lakes The Taseko Lakes are a pair of lakes, Upper Taseko Lake and Lower Taseko Lake, which are expansions of the upper Taseko River in the southern Chilcotin District of the Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada. Their name is based on the orig ...

from its source on the north flank of Mount Monmouth. The river's course is ~35 km in length.

Name origin

The name is derived from the

Chilcotin language ''Nenqayni Ch’ih'' (lit. "the Native way") (also Chilcotin, Tŝilhqotʹin, Tsilhqot’in, Tsilhqút’in) is a Northern Athabaskan language spoken in British Columbia by the Tsilhqot’in people. The name ''Chilcotin'' is derived from the Ch ...

''Ts^icheza'on'', referring to black spire visible from the river's valley. There is a waterfall on the river is called ''nataghelts'ig'' (meanings not provided).

References

* Rivers of the Pacific Ranges Rivers of the Chilcotin Chilcotin Ranges Lillooet Land District {{BritishColumbiaInterior-river-stub

Name origin

See also

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