Requa (also called Karok) is an unincorporated community in Del Norte County, California. It is on the north bank of the Klamath River less than a mile (1.6 km) from its mouth, at an elevation of 125 feet (38 m).
Requa is a Yurok word translated to “mouth of the creek”, the name of a pre-colonial Native American village (Rekwoi) one mile upstream from today's Requa.
Requa in State of Jefferson[]
Requa was a town in the State of Jefferson, located at the mouth of the Klamath River. In 1980, Karuk Indians who fished out of Requa and Crescent City realized that the merfolk who lived along the coast were taking salmon at an alarming rate, depleting the salmon's numbers before they could swim up the Klamath to spawn.[1]
As part of his mediation of the conflict between the Karuk and the merfolk, Governor Bill Williamson took a boat from Requa into the ocean. When he arrived in town, Williamson was underwhelmed by how tiny the town was, and how ramshackle the piers were, he wondered why he hadn't simply gone to Crescent City or any other of the viable port towns nearby.[2]
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