Kvichak River: Difference between revisions
better map |
Rescuing 1 sources and tagging 0 as dead. #IABot (v1.3) |
||
| Line 55: | Line 55: | ||
| length_imperial =50 |
| length_imperial =50 |
||
| length_round = 0 |
| length_round = 0 |
||
| length_note = <ref name="Place Names">{{cite book|last=Orth|first=Donald J.|author2=United States Geological Survey |title=Dictionary of Alaska Place Names: Geological Survey Professional Paper 567|url=http://137.229.113.112/webpubs/usgs/p/text/p0567.pdf|format=PDF|agency=United States Government Printing Office|publisher=University of Alaska Fairbanks|year=1971|origyear=1967|page=557|accessdate=November 25, 2013}}</ref> |
| length_note = <ref name="Place Names">{{cite book|last=Orth |first=Donald J. |author2=United States Geological Survey |title=Dictionary of Alaska Place Names: Geological Survey Professional Paper 567 |url=http://137.229.113.112/webpubs/usgs/p/text/p0567.pdf |format=PDF |agency=United States Government Printing Office |publisher=University of Alaska Fairbanks |year=1971 |origyear=1967 |page=557 |accessdate=November 25, 2013 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017165933/http://137.229.113.112/webpubs/usgs/p/text/p0567.pdf |archivedate=October 17, 2013 |df= }}</ref> |
||
| watershed_imperial = |
| watershed_imperial = |
||
| watershed_round = 0 |
| watershed_round = 0 |
||
Revision as of 04:18, 9 May 2017
The Kvichak River is a large river, about 50 miles (80 km) long, in southwestern Alaska in the United States.[1] It flows southwest from Lake Iliamna to Kvichak Bay, an arm of Bristol Bay, on the Alaska Peninsula.[2] The communities of Igiugig and Levelock lie along the Kvichak River.[2] The Kvichak is navigable along its entire length, and is used as a short cut by boats getting between Cook Inlet and Bristol Bay via the Lake Iliamna portage.
The Kvichak River is home to the largest Red salmon run in the world. Commercial harvests are worth hundreds of millions annually.
The Kvichak River is part of the watershed downstream of the proposed Pebble Mine.
Historically, the river was navigated and subsistence fished by local Alaska Natives. The name of the river means from- or up to- great water, a reference to Iliamna Lake, Alaska's largest freshwater lake.
See also
References
External links
- Kvichak River Photos
- Wildlife of the Kvichak and Nushagak watersheds – U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service