Rivière aux Saumons | |
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Location | |
Country | Canada |
Province | Quebec |
Region | Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean |
MRC | Le Domaine-du-Roy Regional County Municipality |
Municipality | Saint-Félicien |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | Unidentified lake |
• location | L'Île-d'Anticosti |
• coordinates | 49°27′55″N 62°50′15″W / 49.46528°N 62.83750°W |
• elevation | 187 m (614 ft) |
Mouth | Gulf of Saint Lawrence |
• location | L'Île-d'Anticosti |
• coordinates | 49°25′13″N 62°14′4″W / 49.42028°N 62.23444°W |
• elevation | 1 m (3.3 ft) |
Length | 487 km (303 mi) |
Basin features | |
Tributaries | |
• left | (upstream) Stream (from the northeast), stream (from the north), discharge from three lakes, 5 streams from the north, discharge from a lake, discharge (from the north) from several lakes, 2 discharges from the lakes. |
• right | (upstream) 2 discharges from lakes, stream, discharge from several small lakes, discharge from several small lakes, stream (from the southwest), stream (from the west), 2 discharges from lakes. |
The rivière aux Saumons (English: Salmon River) is a stream flowing into Gulf of St. Lawrence, flowing in the municipality of L'Île-d'Anticosti, in the Minganie Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Côte-Nord, in the province of Quebec, in Canada.
A forest road serves the intermediate and lower part of its course. An airport is set up in the chasms sector to accommodate tourist activities. Forestry is the main economic activity in this area; recreational tourism activities, secondly, in particular salmon fishing and excursions in the sinkhole sector. [1]
The Rivière aux Saumons takes its source from Rainsford Lake (length: 0.9 km (0.56 mi); altitude: 187 m (614 ft)) located in the center of Anticosti Island. This source is located at:
From its source, the Rivière aux Saumons flows over 48.7 km (30.3 mi) with a drop of 186 m (610 ft), entirely in the forest zone in the SÉPAQ zone, according to the following segments:
The Rivière aux Saumons flows into the bottom of Anse Harvey on the north shore of Anticosti Island. The entrance to this bay is 4.8 km (3.0 mi) wide, between the point of Cap Harvey (west side of the bay) and Pointe à la Batterie (east side of the bay). This bay penetrates the land towards the south on 1.4 km (0.87 mi). [1]
The toponym "Rivière aux Saumons" was formalized on December 5, 1968, at the Place Names Bank of the Commission de toponymie du Québec. [2]
Characteristics extracted from the geographic map, the database and the site instrumentation