Chaba River (Canada)

{{Infobox river

| name = Chaba River

| image = ChabaRiver.jpg

| image_size = 280px

| image_caption = Chaba River and Chaba Icefield

| subdivision_type1 = Country

| subdivision_name1 = Canada

| subdivision_type2 = Province

| subdivision_name2 = Alberta

| source1_location = Chaba Icefield

| source1_coordinates= {{coord|52|14|49|N|117|40|52|W|region:CA-AB}}

| mouth_location = Athabasca River

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| length =

| source1_elevation = {{convert|1597|m|ft|abbr=on}}

| mouth_elevation = {{convert|1380|m|ft|abbr=on}}

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The Chaba River is a short river in western Alberta, Canada. It flows from the Canadian Rockies, and joins the Athabasca River.Mussio Ventures. Central Alberta Backroad Mapbook. Burnaby: Backroad Mapbooks (2002)

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.{{cite journal|last=Coleman|first=A.P.|year=1895|title=Mount Brown and the Sources of the Athabasca|journal=The Geographical Journal|publisher=Royal Geographical Society|volume=5|issue=1|pages=53–61|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yWoMAAAAIAAJ&q=%22chaba+river%22&pg=PA59|accessdate=2009-07-10|doi=10.2307/1773875|jstor=1773875}} He stated there "were endless beaver dams and trees" along the river, and named it after the Stoney Indian word for beavers."Karamitsanis, Aphrodite (1991). Place Names of Alberta, Volume 1. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, pg. 45