Kamloops City Overview
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Almost any trip in southern British Columbia brings you sooner or later to Kamloops BC British Columbia, a town which has been a transport centre from time immemorial ­ its name derives from the Shuswap word for "meeting of the rivers" ­ and which today marks the meeting point of the Trans-Canada and Yellowhead (South) highways, the region's principal transcontinental roads, as well as the junction of the Canadian Pacific and Canadian National railways. The largest interior town in southern British Columbia, approx population 82,000.

One of the interesting things about Kamloops is it surrounding - bare-earthed brown hills that locals like to say represent the northernmost point of the Mojave Desert. There's no doubting the almost surreal touches of near-desert, which are particularly marked in the bare rock and clay outcrops above the bilious waters of the Thompson River and in the bleached scrub and failing stands of pines that spot the barren hills.

Kamloops British Columbia has great opportunities for sport tournaments of all kinds. Sport tourism is a part of Kamloops and it can host a wide range of sports.