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Upper Truckee River information


Upper Truckee River
Lake Stream, Lake Valley Creek, Little Truckee River[1]
Upper Truckee River, October 2010
EtymologyNamed after the Paiute chief Truckee
Location
CountryUnited States
StateCalifornia
CitiesMeyers, California, South Lake Tahoe, California
Physical characteristics
SourceRed Lake Peak
 • locationSierra Nevada, Alpine County, California
 • coordinates38°43′06″N 119°59′21″W / 38.71833°N 119.98917°W / 38.71833; -119.98917[2]
 • elevation9,480 ft (2,890 m)[3]
MouthLake Tahoe
 • location
El Dorado County, California
 • coordinates
38°56′32″N 119°59′46″W / 38.94222°N 119.99611°W / 38.94222; -119.99611[2]
 • elevation
6,224 ft (1,897 m)[2]
Basin features
Tributaries 
 • leftEcho Creek, Angora Creek
 • rightGrass Lake Creek, Trout Creek (Lake Tahoe) (historically)

The Upper Truckee River is a stream that flows northward from the western slope of Red Lake Peak in Alpine County, California to Lake Tahoe via the Truckee Marsh in South Lake Tahoe, California. The river flows northeasterly and is 23 miles (37 km) long.[3] It is Lake Tahoe's largest tributary.[4]

  1. ^ Barbara Lekisch (1988). Tahoe Place Names: The Origin and History of Names in the Lake Tahoe Basin. Great West Books. pp. 144–145. ISBN 9780944220016. Retrieved December 28, 2012.
  2. ^ a b c "Upper Truckee River". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  3. ^ a b "National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data". The National Map. U.S. Geological Survey. Retrieved December 28, 2012.
  4. ^ "Tahoe: State of the Lake Report 2016" (PDF). UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center. p. 17.

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