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Kamloops lies in the rain shadow leeward of the Coast Mountains and is biogeographically connected to similar semi-desert areas in the Okanagan region, and a much larger area covering the central/eastern portions of Washington, Oregon and intermontane areas of Nevada, Utah and Idaho in the US.
The average annual precipitation in this region is also the second driest in Canada outside of the Arctic, the driest being the Thompson River Valley west of Kamloops. The southern Okanagan is dominated by northern reach of the Columbia Plateau ecoregion and is the only xeric shrubland ecosystem in Canada.
The table below lists the census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in British Columbia by population, using data from the Canada 2016 Census. [1] Each entry is identified as a census metropolitan area (CMA) or a census agglomeration (CA), as defined by Statistics Canada.
The Okanagan Desert is the common name for a semi-arid shrubland located in the southern region of the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia and Washington. It is centred around the city of Osoyoos and is the only semi-arid shrubland in Canada. [1] [2] Part of this ecosystem is referred to as the Nk'mip Desert by the Osoyoos Indian Band.
The administrative offices are in the main population centre of Kamloops, which accounts for 78 percent of the regional district's population. The only other city is Merritt ; other municipally-incorporated communities include the District Municipalities of Logan Lake , Barriere and Clearwater and the Villages of Chase , Ashcroft , Cache Creek ...
This district was created in 1987 from Kamloops—Shuswap and Okanagan North ridings.. In 1996, the riding was abolished and replaced by "North Okanagan–Shuswap". In 1997, the name of this riding was changed to "Okanagan—Shuswap".
Kamloops is the focal point of Thompson Country. Thompson Country, also referred to as The Thompson and sometimes as the Thompson Valley and historically known as the Couteau Country or Couteau District, is a historic geographic region of the Southern Interior of British Columbia, more or less defined by the basin of the Thompson River.
The southeastern third of Kamloops, the northern half of Spallumcheen, the municipalities of Armstrong, Chase, Enderby, Golden, Revelstoke, Salmon Arm, Sicamous, the regional district electoral areas of Columbia Shuswap A, Columbia Shuswap B, Columbia Shuswap C, Columbia Shuswap D, Columbia Shuswap E, Columbia Shuswap F, North Okanagan F ...