Pekwan (also Pecwan, Pack-wans, Pak-wan, Pank-wans, Pec-quan, Pek-wan, and Tirip'ama) (
Yurok
The Yurok people are an Algic-speaking Indigenous people of California that has existed along the or "Health-kick-wer-roy" (now known as the Klamath River) and on the Pacific coast, from Trinidad south of the Klamath’s mouth almost to Cresc ...
: Pekwan or Pekwon
) is a
locality
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and former
Yurok
The Yurok people are an Algic-speaking Indigenous people of California that has existed along the or "Health-kick-wer-roy" (now known as the Klamath River) and on the Pacific coast, from Trinidad south of the Klamath’s mouth almost to Cresc ...
settlement in
Humboldt County,
California
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.
It is located at an elevation of 85 feet (26 m).
on the
Lower Klamath River at the mouth of
Pecwan Creek, east-southeast of
Johnsons.
References
Former settlements in Humboldt County, California
Former Native American populated places in California
Yurok villages
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