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At the height of Okanagan Syilx culture, about 3000 years ago, it is estimated that 12,000 people lived in this valley and surrounding areas. The Syilx employed an adaptive strategy, moving within traditional areas throughout the year to fish, hunt, or collect food, while in the winter months, they lived in semi-permanent villages of kekulis, a type of pithouse. [4]
The Okanagan Valley is home to the Syilx, commonly known as the Okanagan people, an Interior Salish people who live in the valley from the head of Okanagan Lake downstream to near the river's confluence with the Columbia River in present-day Washington, as well as in the neighbouring Similkameen Valley and the Upper Nicola to the north of that ...
Okanagan River (same as Okanogan River), river in British Columbia and Washington; Okanagan Valley (wine region), the wine region around Okanagan Lake; Okanagan Mountain Provincial Park, British Columbia (Okanagan Mountain is also a suburban area of Kelowna, British Columbia) Okanagan Trail, 1858 trail to the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush from Oregon
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 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 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 .