Sinuk River starts from a series of deglaciated cirques at an elevation of 1,890 feet (576 m) on the west flank of Tigaraha Mountain on the Seward Peninsula, and flows generally southwest for 44 miles (71 km), draining a watershed of 190,572 acres (77,122 ha), to the Bering Sea near Cape Rodney and the site of a historic village, about 47 miles (76 km) south of Teller and 26 miles (42 km) west-northwest of Nome, Alaska.