River
Winisk River
600 km from source to mouth · Canada.
CanadaFlows into Hudson Bay
In numbers
Length
600km
Average flow
690m³/s
Basin
67,300km²
Drop
233m
from 233 m to 0 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
600 km of river and 10 stops on the way: 0 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmWunnummin Lakeat 233 m
- 8 kmWunnummin Lake273 km²
- 25 kmSennett Lake7.0 km²
- 40 kmGalbraith Lake3.9 km²
- 43 kmNibinamik Lake2.4 km²
- 78 kmBradden Lake4.9 km²
- 111 kmWapikopa Lake105 km²
- 139 kmChipai Lake119 km²
- 185 kmWinisk Lake258 km²
- 339 kmAsheweig Rivertributary
- 542 kmShamattawa Rivertributary
- 600 kmHudson Bayat 0 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Kenora District, Ontario, Canada
At the mouth it carries 694 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 3.6 seconds. It drops from 233 m to 0 m, 0.4 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 67,300 km², about the size of LK. Highest water, with the snowmelt: from May to July; lowest: from January to April. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- Kayak and canoe90 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From July to AugustThe best months to visit
Winisk River, month by month
Highest water: from May to July
Lowest water: from January to April. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from November to April. Melting snow makes up much of its water. Best months to visit: from July to August.
From about 500 m³/s in the lowest month to 710 m³/s in the highest. An estimate: the monthly flow is modelled from the lowest and highest months of WaterGAP (RiverATLAS, 1971–2000) and the rain and snow along the river (WorldClim). Dams change the real rhythm. The chip is the average air temperature; below it, the month's rain.
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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The basin
Winisk River: the basin in numbers
65,634 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 251people live in the basin
- 195maverage altitude of the basin
- 608mmof rain a year (basin average)
- -2.6°Caverage air temperature
- 7%protected areas
- 9.8%covered by lakes
- 24%permafrost
What covers the basin
- 71% Forest
RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.
Along the river
Winisk River: what you find on the way
- 90RapidsTashka Rapids, Seashell Rapids, Gneiss Rapids and 87 more
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.3 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Winisk River in our other atlases
What our sister atlases know about the waterfalls on this river, the lakes it flows through, the beaches at its mouth, the mountains where it rises and the islands off its mouth.
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Lakes and reservoirs (8)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Wunnummin Lakekm 8273km²
- Sennett Lakekm 257.0km²
- Galbraith Lakekm 403.9km²
- Nibinamik Lakekm 432.4km²
- Bradden Lakekm 784.9km²
- Wapikopa Lakekm 110105km²
- Chipai Lakekm 139119km²
- Winisk Lakekm 184258km²
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From space
The source and the mouth, seen from orbit
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The glowing line is the river as drawn by RiverATLAS.
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (3)
Also: Pipestone River, Asheweig River, Shamattawa River
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q80350) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata |
| Flow | WaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Climate along the river | WorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Towns, bridges, dams | Wikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Along the river | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Our other atlases | Lakeyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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