Kiagna River
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Kiagna River is a waterway in the U.S. state of Alaska, which flows through the Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve.
Kiagna River is a southern tributary of Chitina River, which it joins 30 miles (48 km) below the Chitina Glacier, heads in the high mountains between Chitina River and Granite Creek. It is formed by the union of three principal branches, which receive most of their water from melting snow and ice, and it occupies a typical glacial valley—straight, steep walled, and heavily timbered. Its east and west branches are inclosed by high mountains, but its smaller middle branch flows from a glacier, part of whose drainage is diverted by a tributary to Granite Creek. It thus provides a route from the Chitina Valley to Granite Creek, a westward-flowing stream about 20 miles (32 km) south of the Chitina, which occupies an interior basin in the ice fields of the Chugach Range.[1]
