Innoko River

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The Innoko River (Template:IPAc-en; (Deg Xinag: Yooniq) is a Template:Convert tributary of the Yukon River in the U.S. state of Alaska.<ref name="gnis"/> It flows north from its origin south of Cloudy Mountain in the Kuskokwim Mountains and then southwest to meet the larger river across from Holy Cross.<ref name="DeLorme">Template:Cite book</ref>

Most of its upper portion flows through the Innoko National Wildlife Refuge.<ref name="DeLorme"/> The entire river is within the Yukon–Koyukuk Census Area.<ref name="gnis"/>

Innoko is a Deg Hit’an name for the river.<ref name="Native American Place Names of the United States">Template:Cite book</ref> The Russian colonial administrators also called the river Shiltonotno, Legon or Tlegon, Chagelyuk or Shageluk and Ittege at various times in the 19th century.<ref name="gnis"/>

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