Requa (

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 ...

: ''Rekwoi'') is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

Del Norte County Del Norte County (Spanish for "Of The North") is a county located at the far northwest corner of the U.S. state of California, along the Pacific Ocean adjacent to the Oregon border. Its population was 27,743 as of the 2020 census, down from 28 ...

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. It is on the north bank of the

Klamath River The Klamath River (Karuk language, Karuk: ''Ishkêesh'', Klamath language, Klamath: ''Koke'', Yurok language, Yurok: ''Hehlkeek 'We-Roy'') is a long river in southern Oregon and northern California. Beginning near Klamath Falls, Oregon, Klama ...

less than a mile (1.6 km) from its mouth, at an elevation of 125 feet (38 m). Requa is a small town on the north bank of the

. The town was settled by Europeans in 1851 after prospectors arrived. Requa is a

word translated to “mouth of the creek”, the name of a pre-colonial Native-American village ( Rekwoi) one mile upstream from today's Requa. A post office operated at Requa 1878–1970, with closures in 1883 and moves in 1895 and 1898. On May 20, 2012, Requa was the first town on the

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continent to experience an

annular eclipse A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby obscuring the view of the Sun from a small part of Earth, totally or partially. Such an alignment occurs approximately every six months, during the eclipse season i ...

from the centerline since May 10, 1994. Requa was home to one of several salmon canneries for the Klamath Packing & Trading Co. which was founded in 1881. At its peak, the company was reporting over 10,000 salmon brought in per day, holding the record of 17,000 one day in 1912. A portion of the Requa land is part of

Redwood National Park The Redwood National and State Parks (RNSP) are a complex of one List of national parks of the United States, United States national park and three List of California state parks, California state parks located along the coast of northern Cali ...

, and includes a world-class overlook above the mouth of the

, providing opportunities for whale and bird watching, among others.

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* Unincorporated communities in California Unincorporated communities in Del Norte County, California Populated coastal places in California {{DelNorteCountyCA-geo-stub