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The Tanana River / ˈ t æ n ə n ɑː / (Lower Tanana: Tth'eetoo', Upper Tanana: Tth’iitu’ Niign) is a 584-mile (940 km) tributary of the Yukon River in the U.S. state of Alaska. [ n 1 ] According to linguist and anthropologist William Bright , the name is from the Koyukon (Athabaskan) tene no , tenene , literally "trail river".
The Tanana Valley is a lowland region in central Alaska in the United States, on the north side of the Alaska Range, where the Tanana River emerges from the mountains. Traditional inhabitants of the valley are Tanana Athabaskans of Alaskan Athabaskans .
Affluent of the Nenana River in McKinley Park, Alaska. The Nenana River (Lower Tanana: Nina No’) is a tributary of the Tanana River, approximately 140 miles (230 km) long, in central Alaska in the United States. [3] It drains an area on the north slope of the Alaska Range on the south edge of the Tanana Valley southwest of Fairbanks. [4]
Tanana is located at the confluence of the tributary Tanana and the Yukon River. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 15.6 square miles (40 km 2), of which 11.6 square miles (30 km 2) of it is land and 4.0 square miles (10 km 2) of it (25.80%) is water. Tanana is about 130 miles (210 km) west of Fairbanks. [12]
The Kantishna River (Lower Tanana: Khenteethno) is a 108-mile (174 km) tributary of the Tanana River in the U.S. state of Alaska. [3] Formed by the confluence of the McKinley River with Birch Creek in Denali National Park and Preserve, it drains part of the north slope of the Alaska Range including the Denali massif. [4]
The Chena River (/ ˈ tʃ iː n ə /; Tanana Athabascan: Ch'eno' "river of something (game)") is a 100-mile (160 km) tributary of the Tanana River in the Interior region of the U.S. state of Alaska. It flows generally west from the White Mountains to the Tanana River near the city of Fairbanks , which is built on both sides of the river. [ 6 ]
Delta River. The homeland of Tanana Athabaskans is the Dfc climate type subarctic boreal forest of the Nearctic realm called Interior Alaska-Yukon lowland taiga. Their lands are located in different two ecoregions: [46] The south of Tanana River, called Tanana-Kuskokwim Lowlands and this ecoregion forms an arch north of the Alaska Range and ...
The Delta River is an 80-mile (130 km) tributary of the Tanana River in the U.S. state of Alaska. [1] Its name in the Ahtna language is Saas Na’ [pronunciation?Fed by the Tangle Lakes of the Alaska Range, the river flows north to meet the larger river near Big Delta. [3]