Sakumtha River

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The Sakumtha River is a river in British Columbia, Canada, flowing south out of the Kitimat Ranges from an origin west of the Tsaydaychuz Peak massif into the Dean River north of Bella Coola. [1]

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Name origin

"Sakumtha" is from the Kimsquit dialect of the Nuxalk language and means "to wade across". [2]

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52°51′29″N126°44′41″W / 52.85806°N 126.74472°W / 52.85806; -126.74472