Kvichak
Kvichak may refer to several places in the U.S. state of Alaska: * Kvichak River * Kvichak Bay * Levelock, Alaska Levelock () is a census-designated place (CDP) along the Kvichak River in Lake and Peninsula Borough, Alaska, Lake and Peninsula Borough, Alaska, United States. It was known by the indigenous name of Kivichakh, a variant of ''Kvichak (disambiguati ...

Kvichak River
The Kvichak River ( ; Yup'ik: ''Kuicaraq'') is a large river, about 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 red salmon run in the world. Commercial harvests are worth hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars 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. The Kvichak River was a finalist for the 2017 Riverprize Award for being one of the best- ...
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Kvichak Bay
Kvichak Bay is an arm on the northeast side of Bristol Bay in southern Alaska, at . It is long and wide. The Kvichak River flows into the bay at its furthest northeast point, while the Naknek River Naknek River is a stream, long, in the Bristol Bay Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. It flows west from Naknek Lake to empty into Kvichak Bay, an arm of Bristol Bay. The river and lake are both known for their sockeye and other salmon. T ... comes in from the east about to the south of the Kvichak. Gallery File:Disused pier and warehouse on the Kvichak Bay, AK.jpg, Disused pier and warehouse on the Kvichak Bay File:Kvichak Bay at low tide.png, Kvichak Bay at low tide, with fishermen in the distance File:The Bering Sea at Pederson Point, AK.jpg, Shacks along the Kvichak Bay Bays of Alaska Bodies of water of Bristol Bay Borough, Alaska Bodies of water of Lake and Peninsula Borough, Alaska {{LakeAndPeninsulaAK-geo-stub ...
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