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Sunwapta River

River in Alberta, Canada

Field	Value
name	Sunwapta River
image	Pdphoto canada 1 bg 062104.jpg
image_size	280px
image_caption	Sunwapta Falls
subdivision_type1	Country
subdivision_name1	Canada
subdivision_type2	Province
subdivision_name2	Alberta
source1_location	Athabasca Glacier
source1_coordinates
mouth_location	Athabasca River
mouth_coordinates
source1_elevation	2037 m
mouth_elevation	1300 m

The Sunwapta River is a major tributary of the Athabasca River in Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada.

Course

The headwaters of the Sunwapta River are near the Columbia Icefield in the valley west-northwest of Sunwapta Pass, which divides Jasper National Park from Banff National Park. Several kilometres down the valley from the pass is Sunwapta Lake, at the toe of the Athabasca Glacier, which is considered the nominal source for the river. The Sunwapta River then continues to run northwest through Jasper National Park, following the Icefields Parkway, and finally joins the Athabasca River shortly after Sunwapta Falls.

Sunwapta is a Stoney language word meaning "turbulent river". Geologist A. P. Coleman named the river in 1892.

Tributaries

Kitchener Creek
Tangle Creek
Woolley Creek
Beauty Creek
Diadem Creek
Grizzly Creek
Jonas Creek
Poboktan Creek

Image:Melting Toe of Athabasca Glacier.jpg|Sunwapta River originates at the toe of the Athabasca Glacier Image:TangleFallsAB.jpg|Tangle Creek, a tributary of the Sunwapta

References

Mussio Ventures. ''Central Alberta Backroad Mapbook.'' Burnaby: Backroad Mapbooks (2002), pp. 31-32
Karamitsanis, Aphrodite (1991). ''Place Names of Alberta, Volume 1''. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, pg. 240

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