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Chaba River
Chaba River and Chaba Icefield
Location
Country	Canada
Province	Alberta
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Chaba Icefield
• coordinates	52°14′49″N 117°40′52″W / 52.24694°N 117.68111°W / 52.24694; -117.68111
• elevation	1,597 m (5,240 ft)
Mouth
• location	Athabasca River
• coordinates	52°25′05″N 117°39′38″W / 52.41806°N 117.66056°W / 52.41806; -117.66056
• elevation	1,380 m (4,530 ft)

The Chaba River is a short river in western Alberta, Canada. It flows from the Canadian Rockies, and joins the Athabasca River.

The Chaba River is a major tributary of the Athabasca. The Chaba is fed by the glacial melt originating in the Chaba Icefield, comprising Chaba Peak, as well as Listening and Sundial Peaks. A small glacier on Mount Quincy also contributes to the Chaba. The river was given its name by A. P. Coleman, a geologist born in Eastern Canada in 1852. He stated there "were endless beaver dams and trees" along the river, and named it after the Stoney Indian word for beavers."

See also

• List of Alberta rivers

References

1. Mussio Ventures. Central Alberta Backroad Mapbook. Burnaby: Backroad Mapbooks (2002)
2. Coleman, A.P. (1895). "Mount Brown and the Sources of the Athabasca". The Geographical Journal. 5 (1). Royal Geographical Society: 53–61. doi:10.2307/1773875. JSTOR 1773875. Retrieved 2009-07-10.
3. Karamitsanis, Aphrodite (1991). Place Names of Alberta, Volume 1. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, pg. 45

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