The Iditarod River is a river in western Alaska. The river begins north of Chuathbaluk and flows 325 miles (523 km) northeast and then west to the Innoko River, and ultimately into the Yukon River.
Iditarod is an Anglicization of the Ingalik 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.
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