What is the Pacific Northwest?
Q: What is the Pacific Northwest?
A: The Pacific Northwest, also referred to as Cascadia, is a region on the west coast of North America. It refers to the northwestern corner of the United States and the southwestern part of Canada.
Q: What states are in the southern part of Pacific Northwest?
A: The U.S. states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho and western Montana are in the southern part of the Pacific Northwest.
Q: What provinces are in northern part?
A: The Canadian province of British Columbia and the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Alaska is in the northern part.
Q: Who were some early settlers in this region?
A: Historically, Native Americans settled along the coastline and along major rivers starting from about 15,000 years ago. From 1500s to 1700s Europeans explored this region beginning with discovery of Oregon and Washington while Lewis and Clark expedition arrived in Washington State during early 1800s.
Q: What mountains make up this region?
A: The rugged mountains consist of Coast Range nearer to coast line and Cascade Range which is called North Cascades in Northern Washington or Canadian Cascades in British Columbia respectively.
Q: How does climate affect rivers here?
A: Due to wet climate caused by trapping wet air from Pacific Ocean by mountains there are many rivers resulting from it but large power dams have been built on many rivers affecting salmon runs adversely .
Q:What languages are spoken here ?
A:The main language spoken here is English both in US & Canada whereas Chinook Jargon among Native Americans & Chinese among Asian immigrants has become more common recently .
