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The dominant landscape of the Thompson Plateau is a high, almost plains-like rangeland fairly heavily forested with subalpine forest and tamarack swamp where there exists a significant cattle ranching industry, but plunging steeply to the valleys of the Thompson and Okanagan on its outer perimeter which feature more semi-arid landscapes that ...
The Okanagan (/ ˌ oʊ k ə ˈ n ɑː ɡ ən / OH-kə-NAH-gən), [3] also called the Okanagan Valley and sometimes the Okanagan Country, is a region in the Canadian province of British Columbia defined by the basin of Okanagan Lake and the Canadian portion of the Okanagan River.
The Okanagan River and Okanagan Lake are the most prominent water features in the Okanagan Country, with a combined area of 320 square kilometres (120 sq mi). According to Statistics Canada and the United States Census Bureau , the divided region comprises a total area of more than 40,441 square kilometres (15,614 sq mi), larger than Belgium ...
The Thompson–Nicola Regional District is a regional district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The Canada 2021 Census population was 143,680 and the area covers 44,449.49 square kilometres. The administrative offices are in the main population centre of Kamloops, which accounts for 78 percent of the regional district's population.
Vernon, Armstrong, Coldstream, Salmon Arm, Spallumcheen, North Okanagan C, North Okanagan F, Columbia-Shuswap C, Columbia-Shuswap D, Thompson-Nicola P (Rivers and the Peaks), North Okanagan—Shuswap is a federal electoral district in the province of British Columbia , Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1988.
The surrounding region is sometimes referred to as the Thompson Country. The city was incorporated in 1893 with about 500 residents. The Canadian Pacific Railway was completed through downtown in 1886, and the Canadian National arrived in 1912, making Kamloops an important transportation hub.
The Okanagan Valley was carved out by glaciers, and when the ice retreated approximately 10,000 years ago, the Canadian portion of the basin was filled with one huge waterbody, Lake Penticton. The Valley was scoured to something like its current state when an ice dam at the southern end of Lake Penticton melted, emptying most of the valley.
The list of provincial parks of the Okanagan contains the provincial parks located within this geographic region of the province of British Columbia. It includes parks from the three regional districts of Central Okanagan , North Okanagan and Okanagan-Similkameen .