South Nahanni River
Virginia Falls
The South Nahanni River is a 563 km long tributary of the Liard River in northern Canada. It drains an area of 36,300 km ² and has an average discharge of 404 m³ / s
Course
The South Nahanni River has its source at Mount Christie in the Mackenzie Mountains at an altitude of 1600 m. Then he makes for 10 miles up the border between the Northwest Territories and the Yukon Territory. It flows through the Selwyn Mountains, where it receives the waters of the Little Nahanni River. East of Bologna Ridge he makes a bow to the west. In the Vampires Peaks Range he takes on the river Broken Skull River, then the Rabbit Kettle River and the Nahanni National Park Reserve the Hole in the Wall Creek. Here the river in the 96m high Virginia Falls Waterfall ( ⊙ 61.607222222222-125.735 ) happens. Then he crosses the Park Reserve and takes the Flat River on. Just before the confluence with the Liard River in Nahanni Butte, 90 kilometers north of Fort Liard he still takes on the Jackfish River.