Kiamichi River

Kiamichi River

      river in Oklahoma, U.S., rising in Le Flore county, near the Arkansas state line in the Ouachita Mountains. It flows southwest, past Pine Valley and Clayton to Antlers, where after a course of 165 miles (266 km) it turns southeast and joins the Red River south of Fort Towson in southeast Choctaw county. The Hugo Reservoir, a flood-control installation, is in the river 7 miles (11 km) east of Hugo. The name Kiamichi comes from that of a nearby Caddo Indian village and is thought to mean “noisy bird,” perhaps in reference to the river's large population of woodpeckers. The river is also home to the endangered freshwater scaleshell mussel (Leptodea leptodon), which once inhabited streams throughout the midwestern United States. Much of the upper river was designated a part of the U.S. Scenic Rivers system in 1982, and 9,370 acres (3,792 hectares) within the Ouachita National Forest were later designated a federal wilderness area.

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