Cariboo Mountains

American  

[kar-uh-boo] / ˈkær əˌbu /

plural noun

1. a mountain range in SW Canada, in E central British Columbia, part of the Rocky Mountains: highest peak, about 11,750 feet (3,580 meters).

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Cariboo Mountains British  

plural noun

1. a mountain range in SW Canada, in SE British Columbia. Highest peak: Mount Sir Wilfrid Laurier, 3520 m (11 549 ft)

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Example Sentences

The refuge was built specially for Cari and Boo, two grizzlies named after British Columbia’s Cariboo mountains, where they were born, whose mother was killed by a poacher in June 2002.

From Seattle Times

Cariboo Mountains For a proper adventure, head north to the Cariboo Mountains, a true wilderness of jagged peaks and glacial valleys, perfect for overlanding.

From The Guardian

It first flows N.W. for about 160 m., then rounds the head of the Cariboo Mountains, and flows directly S. for over 400 m. to Hope, where it again turns abruptly and flows W. for 80 m., falling into the Gulf of Georgia at New Westminster.

From Project Gutenberg

You'd never guess that in just a couple of hours, this wildly diverse group will scramble to the summit and stand together on a lofty peak in the remote Cariboo Mountains of British Columbia, 330 miles due west of Calgary.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here the Rockies could be easily pierced; but once through the engineer was faced by the huge flanking range of the Cariboo Mountains, in which repeated explorations failed to find a gap.

From Project Gutenberg