Quinhagak (/ˈkwɪnəhɑːk/;[3] Central Yupik: Kuinerraq[4]) is a city in Bethel Census Area, Alaska, United States.
[5] The Yupik name for the village is Kuinerraq, meaning "new river channel."
[6] Quinhagak is near the Nunalleq archaeological site, which has "easily the largest collection of pre-contact Yup'ik material anywhere," according to anthropologist Rick Knecht.
Quinhagak has appeared under six different names on census records over the course of a century.
It first appeared on the 1880 U.S. Census as the unincorporated Inuit village of "Quinchahamute.
As of the census[16] of 2000, there were 555 people, 137 households, and 113 families residing in the city.
12.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 1.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
Most Quinhagak households practice subsistence hunting and gathering in addition to any wage work they are able to find, utilizing the village's excellent location for salmon and trout fishing, bird, caribou, and moose hunting, and berry picking.