Magpie River (Quebec)

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Barrage de Magpie

Rivière Magpie is a river in the region Minganie in the Côte -Nord administrative region of the Canadian province of Quebec.

River

It flows from the plateau of the Labrador Peninsula, near the provincial border with Newfoundland and Labrador to the south, flows through the elongated lake Lac Magpie, and finally reached after 290 km (according to other sources 200 km), the northern shore of the St. Lawrence Gulf. The mouth is located east of the city of Sept-Îles and north of the western tip of Anticosti Island. The Route 138 crosses the river just before its mouth.

Hydropower plants

One kilometer before the mouth of the river by the Barrage de Magpie is dammed. The commissioned in 2007 new Magpie - hydro power plant ( ⊙ 50.322642-64.454216 ) replaces an older system. It delivers an output of 40.6 MW. The average annual output of 185,000 MWh.

Recreational use

The river is a popular whitewater rafting waters for boating, canoeing and kayaking.

Naming

" Magpie " is the English name for the Gray Jay.