Kechika River
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The Kechika River, also known historically as Black 's River, is a tributary of the Liard River in northern British Columbia.
The river rises on the eastern slope of the peak west of the Sifton Sifton Pass and flows in a northwesterly direction, then to the east. After 230 km of the Kechika River flows near Fireside in the Liard River. The Kechika River drains an area of 22,700 km ². The average discharge at the mouth of the Liard River is 245 m³ / s
The river flows through an impressive wilderness in the northern boreal mountains - the Kechika Ranges, part of the Cassiar Mountains, and the Western Muskwa Ranges, which belong to the northernmost part of the Canadian Rockies.
The valley of the Kechika River, which it flows in a northerly direction, passing in the Rocky Mountain Trench and separates the eastern Rocky Mountains of the west located Cassiar Mountains. End of the valley in the South is the Sifton Pass.
In the lower reaches of the Kechika River turns east and finally reached the Liard River.
The Kechika River is ecologically important because of its far-reaching originality. It has the status of a British Columbia Heritage River.
The first European to visit demonstrably the river, Samuel Black was in the year 1824. 's Why the river was originally called " Black's River".