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Tsirku River

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- elevation
  
1,460 ft (445 m)

Source
  
Tsirku Glacier

Country
  
United States of America

- elevation
  
56 ft (17 m)

Mouth
  
Chilkat River

Borough
  
Haines Borough, Alaska

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- location
  
north slope of Takhinsha Mountains

- location
  
Klukwan, 21 miles (34 km) southwest of Skagway, St. Elias Mountains

The Tsirku River is a glacier-fed stream in Southeast Alaska near the town of Haines in the U.S. state of Alaska. The river's source is found at the Tsirku Glacier, a large, sprawling ice mass at the border of Alaska and the Canadian province of British Columbia. The river ends in a 4-mile (6 km) wide delta near the Tlingit village of Klukwan. While many of the feeding glaciers are primarily in British Columbia, the river course lies entirely in Alaska.

Map of Tsirku River, Klukwan, AK, USA

After the Klehini River, the Tsirku River is the second largest tributary of the Chilkat River.

References

Tsirku River Wikipedia