Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta

The Yukon - Kuskokwim Delta is about 70,000 km ² of the largest river delta systems of the Earth. It is located at the confluence of the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers in the Bering Sea in the west of Alaska between Bristol Bay in the south and the Norton Sound to the north. The delta is located in the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge.

The Kuskokwim flows into the bay of the same in the southwest of the jobs created by the rivers alluvial. The mouth of the Yukon is in the northwest at the junction of Norton Sound in the open sea. The island of Nunivak is separated by the Etolin Strait from the mainland, west of Delta.

The region of the delta, which consists mainly of tundra, has about 20,000 inhabitants, which include 85% of the original inhabitants of Alaska from the peoples of the Yup'ik and Athabascan. The largest settlement and supply center is Bethel on the Kuskokwim.

Between Russian Mission on the Yukon Kuskokwim exists with Upper Kalskag on the Yukon - Kuskokwim Portage a historic land bridge between the two rivers.