Dean River

{{Infobox river

| name = Dean River

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| image = File:Headwaters of Dean River 3.jpg

| image_caption = Headwaters of Dean River

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| pushpin_map = British Columbia

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| pushpin_map_caption= Location of mouth

| subdivision_type1 = Country

| subdivision_name1 = Canada

| subdivision_type2 = State

| subdivision_name2 = British Columbia

| subdivision_type3 = Region

| subdivision_name3 = Coast Mountains, Kitimat Ranges

| subdivision_type4 = District

| subdivision_name4 = Range 3 Coast Land District

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| length = {{convert|253|km|mi|abbr=on}}

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| discharge1_location= Near mouth

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| discharge1_avg = {{convert|136|m3/s|cuft/s|abbr=on}}

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| source1 = Aktaklin Lake

| source1_location = Chilcotin Plateau, Canada

| source1_coordinates= {{coord|52|13|12|N|124|56|47|W|display=inline}}

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| mouth = Dean Channel

| mouth_location = Kimsquit, Canada

| mouth_coordinates = {{coord|52|48|18|N|126|58|06|W|display=inline,title}}{{BCGNIS|8550|Dean River}}

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| basin_size = {{convert|8752|km2|abbr=on}}{{cite book |title= Gazetteer of Canada |volume= British Columbia |publisher= Canadian Board on Geographic Names |year= 1953 |page= xv}}

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The Dean River is one of the major rivers of the Kitimat Ranges subrange of the southern Coast Mountains in British Columbia. It begins at Aktaklin Lake on the Chilcotin Plateau and winds north around the Rainbow Range to enter Dean Channel at the now-uninhabited, remote community of Kimsquit. It is one of the few rivers to fully penetrate the wall of the Coast Mountains between the Fraser's mouth (near Vancouver) and the mouth of the Skeena River (near Prince Rupert).

The Dean River is known as one of the best fisheries for steelhead in the world.{{citation needed|date=May 2013}}