- elevation 1,103 ft (336 m) | - elevation 56 ft (17 m) | |
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- location 25 miles (40 km) northeast of Holikachuk, Yukon–Koyukuk Census Area |
The Iditarod River is a 325-mile (523 km) tributary of the Innoko River in the U.S. state of Alaska. The river begins north of Chuathbaluk and the Russian Mountains and flows northeast and then west to meet the larger river near Holikachuk.
Map of Iditarod River, Alaska, USA
Iditarod is an Anglicization of the Deg Hit’an (Athabascan) name for the river, Haiditirod or Haidilatna, which is probably an English version of the name of a village on the river, that may have corresponded with the village called Iditarod in the 1900s.
References
Iditarod River Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA