The Kivalina River is a 60 mile long river in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Alaska, located at . It begins in the De Long Mountains and flows southwest 96 km (60 miles) to Kivalina Lagoon in the Chukchi Sea.

The village of Kivalina is located on a reef at the mouth of the river.

Its Inuit name was spelled "Kuveleek" by Lt. G. M. Stoney (1900, map), USN, in 1885. Present spelling adopted in 1904.

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