Marron River

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Marron River
River
Country Canada
Province British Columbia
Source Aeneas Lake
 - location Northwest of Marron Valley
 - elevation 2,116 ft (645 m) [1]
 - coordinates 49°23′46″N119°41′46″W / 49.39611°N 119.69611°W / 49.39611; -119.69611
Mouth An unnamed lake
 - location West of Skaha Lake
 - elevation 1,421 ft (433 m) [2]
 - coordinates 49°21′49″N119°36′06″W / 49.36361°N 119.60167°W / 49.36361; -119.60167 Coordinates: 49°21′49″N119°36′06″W / 49.36361°N 119.60167°W / 49.36361; -119.60167

The Marron River is a very small & very short river in southern British Columbia. It is located just west of Skaha Lake, and is about 7.8 km long.  [3]

River Natural flowing watercourse

A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of water. Small rivers can be referred to using names such as stream, creek, brook, rivulet, and rill. There are no official definitions for the generic term river as applied to geographic features, although in some countries or communities a stream is defined by its size. Many names for small rivers are specific to geographic location; examples are "run" in some parts of the United States, "burn" in Scotland and northeast England, and "beck" in northern England. Sometimes a river is defined as being larger than a creek, but not always: the language is vague.

British Columbia Province of Canada

British Columbia is the westernmost province of Canada, located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. With an estimated population of 5.016 million as of 2018, it is Canada's third-most populous province.

Skaha Lake lake in British Columbia, Canada

Skaha Lake, historically known as Dog Lake and originally Lac Du Chien, is a freshwater lake located along the course of the Okanagan River in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia, Canada. It has a surface area of approximately 20 km², with a maximum depth of 55 metres. The lake is situated directly south of Okanagan Lake and forms the southern shoreline and boundary of the city of Penticton, British Columbia. The community of Okanagan Falls is located at its southern end, the community of Kaleden lies in the upland area to its west.

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Course

The Marron River originates in small Aeneas Lake, [4] which is located about 7.8 km west of Skaha Lake, at the head of the Marron Valley (Marron Valley is also the name of the local community). [5] The river flows southeast for about 2 kilometers until it enters the second lake along its course, Marron Lake. [6] Marama Creek, the river’s only officially named tributary, enters the lake’s south shore. The river, after exiting Marron Lake, flows northeast for about 3.1 km as it continues its way down Marron Valley toward Skaha Lake. The river than turns southeast & flows that way for another 3.1 km until it reaches a small, unnamed lake just west of Skaha Lake.

Marron Valley Place in British Columbia, Canada

Marron Valley is an inhabited locality and former post office in the South Okanagan region of the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada, located to the west of Skaha Lake.

Mouth

The Marron River’s mouth is somewhat different than the mouths of many other British Columbia rivers in the sense that it ends in a lake with no outlet. The river enters an unnamed lake that is located about .4 km west of Skaha that has no above-ground outlet. There is likely an underground outlet that carries the outflow from the lake somewhere else (possibly Skaha Lake). While this is an interesting feature, there are a handful of other rivers in British Columbia that do this; many of which are in Central British Columbia where the terrain is flatter & features like this are more common.

Naming

The river may have been first called the River of the Wild Horses back in 1833 by botanist David Douglas. The river was given its current name in 1871. The word Marron is French and it has several meanings. One of them is "domestic animal that has become wild". According to Mrs. William Allen and Mr. F. M. Buckland, a lot of wild horses roamed the area around the river, which is likely why the river was given the name it was in reference to the wild horses that roamed the surrounding terrain.

David Douglas (botanist) British botanist

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French language Romance language

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Horse Domesticated four-footed mammal from the equine family

The horse is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus. It is an odd-toed ungulate mammal belonging to the taxonomic family Equidae. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature, Eohippus, into the large, single-toed animal of today. Humans began domesticating horses around 4000 BC, and their domestication is believed to have been widespread by 3000 BC. Horses in the subspecies caballus are domesticated, although some domesticated populations live in the wild as feral horses. These feral populations are not true wild horses, as this term is used to describe horses that have never been domesticated, such as the endangered Przewalski's horse, a separate subspecies, and the only remaining true wild horse. There is an extensive, specialized vocabulary used to describe equine-related concepts, covering everything from anatomy to life stages, size, colors, markings, breeds, locomotion, and behavior.

The river’s source lake, Aeneas Lake, was named after an Indian by the name of Little Aeneas. He lived at the south end of the lake, alone, for many years before dying at over 100 years old.

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References

  1. ↑ Source elevation derived from Google Earth.
  2. ↑ Mouth elevation derived from Google Earth.
  3. ↑ "Marron River". BC Geographical Names.
  4. ↑ "Aeneas Lake". BC Geographical Names.
  5. ↑ "Marron Valley". BC Geographical Names.
  6. ↑ "Marron Lake". BC Geographical Names.
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