Copper River
The Copper River or Ahtna River, "river of copper", is a 290-mile river in south-central Alaska in the United States. It drains a large region of the Wrangell Mountains and Chugach Mountains into the Gulf of Alaska.
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Alaska
- Also known as: “‘Atna’”, “‘Atna’tuu”, “Aetna River”, “Ahtena”, “Ahtna Nehri”, “Ahtna River”, “At River”, “Atna River”, “Atnah River”, “Eekheeni”, “Eeḵhéeni”, “Fluss Atna”, “K’etna‘”, “Kupfer Fluss”, “Měděná řeka”, “Miednaia”, “Rio Copper”, “Rio de los Perdidos”, “Ryka Mydnaya”, “נהר קופר”, “נהר קופר (אלסקה)”, and “コッパー川”
Copper River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Alaska, United States, North America
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Latitude
60.36787° or 60° 22′ 4″ north
Longitude
-144.98327° or 144° 58′ 60″ west
Open location code
93GQ9298+4M
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Copper River” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر كوبر (ألاسكا)”
- Arabic: “نهر كوبر”
- Asturian: “Ríu Copper”
- Bulgarian: “Копър (река)”
- Bulgarian: “Копър”
- Catalan: “riu Copper”
- Catalan: “Riu Copper”
- Cebuano: “Copper River”
- Chinese: “銅河流域”
- Chinese: “铜河”
- Czech: “Copper”
- Danish: “Copper River”
- Dutch: “Copper River”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر كوپير”
- Esperanto: “Kupra Rivero”
- French: “Copper”
- German: “Copper River”
- Hebrew: “קופר”
- Irish: “Abhainn Copper”
- Italian: “Copper”
- Japanese: “カッパー川”
- Lithuanian: “Koperis (upė)”
- Lithuanian: “Koperis”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Copper River”
- Norwegian: “Copper”
- Polish: “Rzeka Miedziana”
- Russian: “Коппер”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Copper”
- Spanish: “Río Copper”
- Turkish: “Copper Nehri (Alaska)”
- Turkish: “Copper Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Мідна річка”
- Venetian: “Copper”
- Welsh: “Afon Copper”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Copper River Delta and Alaganik Bridge Picnic Area.
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Highlights: Kokinhenik Island and Kokinhenik Branch.
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