Information About

Kaliakh River

Quick Facts

Open in The Map Kaliakh River on The Map

Location

60 ° 5' 47" N,
142 ° 49' 21" W

Region

Valdez-Cordova (CA)

Nearest City

McCarthy

Length

24 mi (38.62 km)

Elevation

10 ft (3.05 m)

Kaliakh River in Detail.

About

heads in Hanna Lake, flows SE and SW to Gulf of Alaska, 13 mi. NW of Cape Yakataga and 106 mi. SE of Cordova, Malaspina Coastal Plain.

History

Tlingit Indian name published in 1849 by Captain M. D. Tebenkov, Imperial Russian Navy (IRN). The 1869 Coast Pilot (p. 143) spelled it "Kaliekh." This may be the same stream labeled "small river" in Captain George Vancouver's atlas of 1798.