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Kenai River bank. The Kenai River [Kee-nye] is a meltwater river that drains the central Kenai Peninsula region. Its source is the Kenai Lake. [2] Near Cooper Landing, the lake narrows to form the river. About 12 miles (19 km) from the lake, the river passes through Kenai Canyon for about 2 miles (3.2 km) of fast-flowing whitewater rapids.
The Kenai Peninsula (Dena'ina: Yaghenen) is a large peninsula jutting from the coast of Southcentral Alaska.The name Kenai (/ ˈ k iː n aɪ /, KEE-ny) is derived from the word "Kenaitze" or "Kenaitze Indian Tribe", the name of the Native Athabascan Alaskan tribe, the Kahtnuht’ana Dena’ina ("People along the Kahtnu (Kenai River)"), who historically inhabited the area. [1]
Kenai is located at (60.558738, −151.229616), [1] on the west side of the Kenai Peninsula near the outlet of the Kenai River to the Cook Inlet of the Pacific According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 35.5 square miles (92 km 2 ), of which, 29.9 square miles (77 km 2 ) of it is land and 5.6 square miles (15 km ...
Sep. 15—The Kenai Peninsula Borough issued an emergency declaration Thursday to ask for state assistance in recovering from ongoing flooding that has damaged homes and roads near the Kenai River.
Alaska: Kenai River. Turquoise waters make the glacier-fed, 80-mile Kenai one of the most picturesque of Alaska's many stunning rivers. While too popular with salmon fishermen to afford much of ...
Swanson River – 40 miles (64 km) Kenai River – 75 miles (121 km) Snow River - 18 miles (29 km) Skilak River - 5 miles (8.0 km) Kasilof River – 17 miles (27 km) Ninilchik River – 21 miles (34 km) Nelchina River – 47 miles (76 km) Little Nelchina River – 44 miles (71 km) Anchor River – 30 miles (48 km) Fox River – 27 miles (43 km)
The watershed covers about 100,000 km 2 (39,000 sq mi) of southern Alaska, east of the Aleutian Range, south and east of the Alaska Range, receiving water from its tributaries, which include the Knik River, the Little Susitna River, the Susitna and Matanuska rivers, Eagle River, Ship Creek, Resurrection Creek, Portage Creek, Kenai River, and ...
Kenai Lake (Dena'ina: Sqilan Bena) is a large, "zig-zag" shaped lake [2] on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. The lake forms the headwaters of the Kenai River , [ 3 ] and is itself a destination for fishing and other outdoor activity.