KIAMICHI RIVER

river in Oklahoma, U.S., rising in Le Flore County, near the Arkansas state line in the Ouachita Mountains. It flows southwest, past Pine Valley and Clayton to Antlers, where it turns southeast and joins the Red River south of Fort Towson in southeast Choctaw County after a course of 165 miles (266 km). The Hugo Reservoir, a flood-control installation, is in the river 7 miles (11 km) east of Hugo. Kiamichi probably comes from a French word for horned screamer, the name of a local bird.