Kakwa-Willmore_Interprovincial_Park

Kakwa Wildland Provincial Park

Kakwa Wildland Provincial Park

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Kakwa Wildland Park is a provincial park in the Rocky Mountain Foothills just east of the northern Canadian Rockies, in Alberta, Canada,[2] immediately east of the border with British Columbia at the 120th meridian west. The park is home to Alberta's tallest waterfall, the Kakwa Falls, which is 30 metres tall.[3]

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It adjoins Willmore Wilderness Park and British Columbia's Kakwa Provincial Park and Protected Area and together with them comprises the first interprovincial park shared between BC and Alberta.[4][5]

It takes the name from Kakwa, the Cree word for porcupine.[6]

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  1. [1]
    "Kakwa Wildland Fact Sheet" (PDF). Alberta Parks. Government of Alberta. Retrieved 27 June 2016.
  2. [2]
    "Alberta Parks infopage". Archived from the original on 2009-08-13. Retrieved 2009-06-14.
  3. [3]
    "Kakwa Wildland Provincial Park". Alberta Parks. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
  4. [4]
    BC Parks page on Kakwa Provincial Park
  5. [5]
    Kakwa-Willmore Interprovincial Park
  6. [6]
    Canadian parks and wilderness Society. "Kakwa". Archived from the original on 2011-07-25. Retrieved 2010-09-18.


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