The Innoko River is a river in western Alaska. It flows north from its origin south of Cloudy Mountain in the Kuskokwim Mountains and then flows southwest to its end at the Yukon River, across from Holy Cross, Alaska.
The river is about 500 miles (805 km) long. Most of its upper portion flows through the Innoko National Wildlife Refuge.
Innoko is a Deg Hit’an name for the river. The Russian colonial administrators also called the river Shiltonotno, Legon or Tlegon, Chagelyuk or Shageluk and Ittege at various times.
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