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Okanagan mountains

Monashee Mountains are a mountain range invalley of the Shuswap River, while its
British Columbia, Canada covering the areassouthern limit is the FDR Reservoir (formerly
of British Columbia (78%) and Washingtonthe Columbia River before the construction of
(22%) and extending 530 km from north tothe Grand Coulee Dam) in Washington State.
south and 150 km from east to west. TheySome definitions may place the northern limit
belong to the Columbia mountain range.at the Coldstream Valley, east of Vernon,
Neighbouring in the west are the SelkirkBritish Columbia, as that is the southern
Mountains. Monashee Mountains are limitedlimit  of  the  Shuswap  Highland.
from the east by Columbia River and Arrow
Lakes, to the west by upper North ThompsonTo the east of the Okanagan Highland are the
River, Shuswap Lake and Okanagan Lake. ItsMonashee Mountains, some definitions of which
north end is in Robson Valley at Valemountinclude the Okanagan Highland as well as
BC. Peaks include Hallam Peak (3,205 m) andportions  of  the  Shuswap  Highland.
Cranberry Mountain (2,872 m). Between
Revelstoke and Shuswap Lake the range isThe Thompson Plateau is the southernmost
crossed by Highway 1, the Trans-Canadaportion of the Interior Plateau of British
Highway and the mainline of the CanadianColumbia, Canada, lying between Okanagan Lake
Pacific Railway thorough Eagle Pass. Monasheeand the Thompson River. Its southwestern edge
Mountains' southern end is a subject of majorabuts the Canadian Cascades portion of the
mining  activities.Cascade Range, more or less following the
line of the Similkameen River, its tributary
In some descriptions of the Monashees, athe Tulameen River, and a series of passes
region known as the Okanagan Highland isfrom the area of Tulameen, British Columbia
included. It lies between the Kettle Riverto the confluence of the Thompson River with
and Okanagan Lake, south of the Shuswapthe Nicoamen River, a few miles east of
River. Within this area is the small SawtoothLytton, British Columbia. Its northwestern
Range, which lies between the uppermostedge runs approximately from the city of
Shuswap  River  (E)  and  Mabel  Lake  (W).Vernon, British Columbia through the valley
of Monte Creek to the junction of the same
Also sometimes included is the portion of thename just east of the city of Kamloops.
Shuswap Highland south of the North ThompsonNortheast of that line is the Shuswap
River, the boundary of which extends south toHighland.
the  Okanagan  Highland.
Some definitions include the Bonaparte
MountainsPlateau, which lies in the angle of the
Thompson and Bonaparte Rivers, and south of
Mount  Monashee  3274mthe uppermost reaches of that river and a
small tributary of the North Thompson,
Hallam  Peak  3205mLemieux  Creek.
Thor  Mountain  3146mThe dominant landscape of the Thompson
Plateau is a high, almost plains-like
Mount  Odin  2971mrangeland fairly heavily forested with
subalpine forest and tamarack swamp, plunging
Cranberry  Mountain  2872msteeply to the valleys of the Thompson and
Okanagan on its outer perimeter. In its core
The  Pinnacles  2607mis the broad and open rangeland of the Nicola
Valley, at the focus of which is the town of
The Okanagan Highland, also known as theMerritt, British Columbia. Towards its
Okanogan Highland in the United States, is asouthern edges, the plateau is fairly
plateau-like hilly area in British Columbia,mountainous and includes the ski area at
Canada. It lies between the Okanagan ValleyApex, British Columbia, as well as the small
on its west and the Kettle River on its east,but rugged Okanagan Range which runs south
and geologically is more or less an extensionfrom there to the confluence of the
of the Thompson Plateau, which lies west ofSimilkameen and Okanagan Rivers.
the Okanagan. Its northern perimeter is the



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