The Wynoochee River is a long
river located in the
Olympic Peninsula
The Olympic Peninsula is a large arm of land in western Washington that lies across Puget Sound from Seattle, and contains Olympic National Park. It is bounded on the west by the Pacific Ocean, the north by the Strait of Juan de Fuca, an ...
in the
U.S. state of
Washington. A tributary of the
Chehalis River, the Wynoochee River rises in the
Olympic Mountains
The Olympic Mountains are a mountain range on the Olympic Peninsula of the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The mountains, part of the Pacific Coast Ranges, are not especially high – Mount Olympus is the highest at ; however, the east ...
within the
Olympic National Park and flows generally south. Its
drainage basin
A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, ...
is in area.
The name Wynoochee comes from the
Lower Chehalis placename ''/xʷənúɬč/'',
meaning "shifting".
See also
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List of Washington rivers
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Wynoochee Dam
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Grays Harbor County
Grays Harbor County is a county in the U.S. state of Washington. As of the 2020 census, the population was 75,636. Its county seat is Montesano, and its largest city is Aberdeen. Grays Harbor County is included in the Aberdeen Micropolitan ...
References
External links
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Rivers of Washington (state)
Rivers of Grays Harbor County, Washington
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