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Beatty Creek (Tahltan River tributary)

The 883rd longest river in the world

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Beatty Creek is a tributary of the Tahltan River in northwest part of the province of British Columbia, Canada. It flows generally south about 62 km (39 mi) to join the Tahltan River a few kilometres downstream from the Little Tahltan River confluence. The Tahltan River is one of the main tributaries of the Stikine River. Beatty Creek's watershed covers 438 km2 (169 sq mi), and its mean annual discharge is 5.73 m3/s (202 cu ft/s). The mouth of the Beatty Creek is located about 14 km (8.7 mi) north of Telegraph Creek, British Columbia, about 190 km (120 mi) east of Juneau, Alaska, and about 360 km (220 mi) southeast of Whitehorse, Yukon. Beatty Creek's watershed's land cover is classified as 32.3% shrubland, 22.4% conifer forest, 17.8% barren, 15.8% mixed forest, 10.3% herbaceous, and small amounts of other cover. Beatty Creek is in the traditional territory of the Tahltan people.

Flows through: Canada.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.

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