Mount Kaweah () is a mountain in

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and forms part of the Kaweah Peaks Ridge, a spur of the Great Western Divide which extends south from Triple Divide Peak. It has a summit elevation of , the highest along the Kaweah Peaks Ridge.

Name

The peak was named for the

Kaweah River The Kaweah River is a river draining the southern Sierra Nevada in Tulare County, California in the United States. Fed primarily by high elevation snowmelt along the Great Western Divide, the Kaweah begins as four forks in Sequoia National Pa ...

which has its headwaters to the west of the Kaweah Peaks Ridge. The Kaweahs, however, drain into the

Kern River The Kern River is an Endangered, Wild and Scenic river in the U.S. state of California, approximately long. It drains an area of the southern Sierra Nevada The Sierra Nevada ( ) is a mountain range in the Western United States, between ...

. The Kaweah River was named for the Kawai (or Gā'wia) tribe, members of the

Yokuts people The Yokuts (previously known as MariposasPowell, 1891:90–91.) are an ethnic group of Native Americans native to central California. Before European contact, the Yokuts consisted of up to 60 tribes speaking several related languages. Yokuts ...

. The Yokuts were once known as Mariposa.

Foxtail Pine

A rare

pine A pine is any conifer tree or shrub in the genus ''Pinus'' () of the family Pinaceae. ''Pinus'' is the sole genus in the subfamily Pinoideae. ''World Flora Online'' accepts 134 species-rank taxa (119 species and 15 nothospecies) of pines as cu ...

, the

Foxtail Pine ''Pinus balfouriana'', the foxtail pine, is a rare high-elevation pine that is endemic to California, United States. It is closely related to the Great Basin and Rocky Mountain bristlecone pines, in the subsection ''Balfourianae''. Descriptio ...

, lives on the southern slopes of Mount Kaweah.

Highest mountain in the southwest Sierra

Mount Kaweah is the highest mountain in the southwest Sierra.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kaweah, Mount Mountains of Tulare County, California Mountains of Sequoia National Park Kaweah Mountains of Northern California

Name

Foxtail Pine

Highest mountain in the southwest Sierra

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