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Kvichak River
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The Kvichak River ( KWEE-jak; Yup'ik: Kuicaraq) is a large river, about 50 miles (80 km) long, in southwestern Alaska in the United States. It flows southwest from Lake Iliamna to Kvichak Bay, an arm of Bristol Bay, on the Alaska Peninsula. The communities of Igiugig and Levelock lie along the Kvichak River. 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 sockeye salmon run in the world. Commercial harvests are worth hundreds of millions of ...
49.7 mi total
1 sections
3 access points
0 camps
0 rapids
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Click any point for details. Sections without stored geometry are drawn as straight put-in → take-out lines — actual courses follow the river.