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The Canadian River (Pawnee: ''Kícpahat'' ) is the longest tributary of the Arkansas River. It is about long, starting in Colorado and traveling through New Mexico, the Texas Panhandle, and Oklahoma. The drainage area is about .〔(Dianna Everett, "Canadian River." ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture''. ) Retrieved October 7, 2013.〕 The Canadian is sometimes referred to as the South Canadian River to differentiate it from the North Canadian River that flows into it. ==Etymology== It is unclear why the river is called the Canadian. On John C. Fremont's route map of 1845, the river's name is listed as "Goo-al-pah or Canadian River" from the Comanche and Kiowa name for the river (Kiowa ''gúlvàu'', (IPA: ()) 'red river'). The name may have been given to the river by early French hunters and traders, especially the Mallet brothers, who came from Canada and who assumed the river flowed north to Canada, because it flowed northeast through part of the Texas Panhandle.〔 In 1929 Muriel H. Wright wrote that the Canadian River was named about 1820 by French traders who noted another group of traders from Canada had camped on the river near its confluence with the Arkansas River.〔Wright, Muriel H. "Some Geographic Names of French Origin in Oklahoma", ''Chronicles of Oklahoma'', 7(2):188-193, June 1929.〕 According to the ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture'', Spanish explorers in the 17th and 18th centuries called it the ''Rio Buenaventura'' and the Magdalena.〔 The upper part was called ''Rio Colorado'' by the Spanish. A more recent explanation comes from William Bright, who wrote that the name is "probably derived from ''Río Canadiano''", a Spanish spelling of the Caddo word ''káyántinu'', which was the Caddos' name for the nearby Red River. The name could be of Spanish origin from the word ''cañada'' (meaning "glen"), as the Canadian River formed a steep canyon in northern New Mexico and a somewhat broad canyon in Texas. A few historical records document this explanation. Edward Hale, writing in 1929, considered the French origin of the name most probable.〔Hale, Edward E. "French Place-Names in New Mexico", ''French Review'', 3(2):110-112, November 1929.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Canadian River」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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