Athabasca River
The Athabasca River in Alberta, Canada, originates at the Columbia Icefield in Jasper National Park and flows more than 1,231 km before emptying into Lake Athabasca.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Stream
- Description: Canadian river in Alberta province
- Also known as: “Athabasca”
Athabasca River
- Categories: river, Canadian Heritage Rivers System, and body of water
- Location: Alberta, Prairies, Canada, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Athabasca River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Athabascarivier”
- Arabic: “نهر أتاباسكا”
- Arabic: “نهر اتاباسكا”
- Armenian: “Աթաբասկա”
- Asturian: “Ríu Athabasca”
- Azerbaijani: “Atabaska çayı”
- Basque: “Athabasca ibaia”
- Belarusian: “Атабаска”
- Bengali: “আথাবাস্কা নদী”
- Bulgarian: “Атабаска”
- Catalan: “riu Athabasca”
- Catalan: “Riu Athabasca”
- Cebuano: “Athabasca River”
- Cebuano: “Rivière Athabasca”
- Chinese: “阿萨巴斯卡河”
- Chuvash: “Атабаска”
- Croatian: “Athabasca”
- Czech: “Athabasca”
- Danish: “Athabasca River”
- Dutch: “Athabasca River”
- Dutch: “Athabasca”
- Dutch: “Rivière Athabasca”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر اتاباسكا”
- Esperanto: “Atabasko”
- Finnish: “Athabascajoki”
- French: “rivière Athabasca”
- French: “Rivière Athabasca”
- German: “Athabasca River”
- Greek: “Ποταμός Αθαμπάσκα”
- Hebrew: “אתבסקה”
- Irish: “Abhainn Athabasca”
- Italian: “Athabasca”
- Japanese: “アサバスカ川”
- Kazakh: “Атабаска”
- Korean: “애서배스카강”
- Latin: “Athabasca”
- Lithuanian: “Atabaska”
- Mingrelian: “ათაბასკა (წყარმალუ)”
- Mingrelian: “ათაბასკა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Athabasca”
- Norwegian: “Athabasca”
- Persian: “رود اتبسکا”
- Polish: “Athabaska”
- Portuguese: “Rio Athabasca”
- Romanian: “Râul Athabasca”
- Russian: “Атабаска”
- Serbian: “Атабаска”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Athabasca”
- Slovak: “Atabaska”
- Slovenian: “Athabasca River”
- Slovenian: “Athabasca”
- Slovenian: “reka Athabasca”
- South Azerbaijani: “اتبسکا چایی”
- Spanish: “rio Athabasca”
- Spanish: “río Athabasca”
- Spanish: “Río Athabasca”
- Swedish: “Athabasca River”
- Swedish: “Athabascafloden”
- Swedish: “Rivière Athabasca”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำแอทะแบสกา”
- Turkish: “Athabasca Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Атабаска”
- Venetian: “Fiume Athabasca”
- Welsh: “Afon Athabasca”
- Western Panjabi: “دریاۓ اتھہباسکا”
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