Catto Creek

Catto Creek is a tributary of the Wakeman River in the Central Coast region of the province of British Columbia, Canada.
It flows generally south and southwest for roughly to join the upper Wakeman River. The mouth of Catto Creek is located about south of Bella Coola, about north of Campbell River, and about northwest of Vancouver.
Catto Creek is in the traditional territory of the Kwakwakaʼwakw Gwaʼsala-ʼNakwaxdaʼxw Nations, Ḵwiḵwa̱sut'inux̱w Ha̱xwa'mis First Nation, and the Dzawada̱'enux̱w First Nation.

Geography

Catto Creek originates in the high peaks and glaciers of the Ha-Iltzuk Icefield in the Pacific Ranges of the southern Coast Mountains. Its source is in the Catto Creek Conservancy protected area. The creek flows south and southwest to the Wakeman River just south of the Catto Creek Conservancy.

Geology

The headwaters of Catto Creek are within the southern portion of the Silverthrone Caldera, a wide volcanic structure formed by subsidience of the land surface. At the head of the creek is the deeply dissected remains of intracaldera polymict breccia that is overlain by younger lava flows and domes. About southeast of the head of Catto Creek is a basaltic andesite flow near the eastern bank of the creek. From there, Catto Creek flows about southwest to the inferred southwestern boundary of the Silverthrone Caldera.