{{Short description|River in Alaska, the United States of America}} {{Use American English|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox river | name =Kivalina River | image =AKMap-doton-Kivalina.PNG | image_size = 260px | image_caption =Location of Kivalina, Alaska | length_mi = 60 | source1_location =De Long Mountains | mouth_location =Kivalina Lagoon | mouth_coordinates = {{coord|67|49|03|N|164|40|46|W|display=it}} | subdivision_type1 = Country | subdivision_name1 = United States | subdivision_type2 = State | subdivision_name2 = Alaska | subdivision_type3 = Borough | subdivision_name3 = Northwest Arctic Borough }} The '''Kivalina River''' (Iñupiaq: ''Kivalliik kuuŋat'') is a {{convert|60|mi|km|adj=mid|-long}} river in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Alaska, flowing into Kivalina Lagoon in the Northwest Arctic Borough. It begins in the De Long Mountains and flows southwest {{convert|60|mi}} through Kivalina Lagoon to the Chukchi Sea.<ref>USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). [https://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:1418801 Kivalina River.] Accessed August 20, 2007.</ref> Its Inuit name was spelled "Kuveleek" by Lieutenant G. M. Stoney, United States Navy, in 1885, and its present spelling was adopted in 1904.

The village of Kivalina is located on a reef at the mouth of the river.

==See also== *List of rivers of Alaska

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Category:Rivers of North Slope Borough, Alaska Category:Rivers of Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska Category:Rivers of Alaska Category:Drainage basins of the Chukchi Sea

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