Lake Mistassini

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The Mistassinisee (French Lac Mistassini ) is equipped with a water surface of 2164 km natural waters in the Canadian province of Quebec ² the largest.

The total area including the islands is 2335 km ². The freshwater lake is located in the southern part of Québec in a forest - and water-rich region, with the exception of the small village of Mistissini ( Baie -du -Poste, 3,500 inhabitants), located at the southern end of the lake is completely uninhabited.

The lake has a length of 161 km, is 19 km wide and is traversed longitudinally by a chain of islands, which almost divides it into two halves. In the center he has on the west side, at the join many very small lakes directly to the Mistassinisee, no clear boundary. It flows there over the Rivière Rupert from the James Bay.

The name of the lake is derived from the language of the indigenous people, the Cree, and means " Big Rock ".

The Canadian writer and director Boyce Richardson led in 1974 Director in a produced by the National Film Board of Canada 57minütigen film about the Native Cree Hunters of Mistassini the.

Inflows

  • Rivière Chalifour
  • Rivière Pépeshquasati
  • Rivière Takwa
  • Outflow of Lake Albanel, fed by the Rivière Témiscamie
  • Rivière Wabissinane

Islands

  • Ile Montpetit
  • Ile Manitounouc
  • Ile - André Michaux
  • Ile Marie- Victorin
  • Ile Dablon
  • Ile Guillaume Couture
  • Ile Lemoine
  • Ile de la Passe
  • Ile Tchapahipane - 30 km -long island, longest island chain of islands along the Lake
  • Ile Pahipanouk
  • Ile Rouleau - Located in the south of the lake, forms the central peak of an impact crater

Peninsulas

  • Presqu'ile Abatagouche - in the south of the island chain
  • Péninsule Ouachimiscau - in the north of the island chain, 22 km long
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