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Mount Kaweah, a 13,807-foot peak in Sequoia National Park, rises on the Kaweah Peaks Ridge, a spur of the Great Western Divide extending south from Triple Divide Peak. It is the highest summit on that ridge and the highest mountain in the southwest Sierra. Although named for the Kaweah River, whose headwaters lie west of the ridge, the Kaweah Peaks themselves drain toward the Kern River. The river’s name comes from the Kawai, or Gā'wia, a Yokuts tribe once known as Mariposa. The mountain’s southern slopes support rare foxtail pine, a distinctive high-elevation Sierra Nevada tree.
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