The Nicoamen River is a tributary of the

Thompson River The Thompson River is the largest tributary of the Fraser River, flowing through the south-central portion of British Columbia, Canada. The Thompson River has two main branches, the South Thompson River and the North Thompson River. The ri ...

in the southern

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, located upstream from its confluence with the Thompson at Lytton. The Nicoamen forms the extreme northeast boundary of the

Cascade Mountains The Cascade Range or Cascades is a major mountain range of western North America, extending from southern British Columbia through Washington and Oregon to Northern California. It includes both non-volcanic mountains, such as the North Cascades, a ...

and part of the western boundary of the

Thompson Plateau The Thompson Plateau forms the southern portion of the Interior Plateau of British Columbia, Canada, lying to the west of Okanagan Lake, south of the Thompson River and east of (although never adjoining it) the Fraser River. At its most southern p ...

. Located nearby is the

Nicoamen Plateau The Nicoamen Plateau is a small sub-plateau of the Thompson Plateau in the southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada, located between the Nicoamen River (W) and the lower valley of the Nicola River The Nicola River , originally French Riviè ...

, a small subplateau of the Thompson Plateau.

History

The confluence of the Thompson and Nicoamen is the site of one of the incidents which led to the

Fraser Canyon Gold Rush The Fraser Canyon Gold Rush, (also Fraser Gold Rush and Fraser River Gold Rush) began in 1858 after gold was discovered on the Thompson River in British Columbia at its confluence with the Nicoamen River a few miles upstream from the Thompson's ...

of 1858–60, as the location of a meet-up between the Nlaka'pamux people of the area and American miners.

References

* Rivers of British Columbia Thompson Country Gold rushes Canadian Cascades {{BritishColumbiaInterior-river-stub