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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Kakwa Wildland Provincial Park | |
Location | Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, Alberta, Canada |
Nearest city | Grande Cache |
Coordinates | 54°04′06″N 119°44′04″W |
Area | 64,928 ha (160,440 acres) |
Established | 1996[1] |
Governing body | Alberta Tourism, Parks and Recreation |
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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]