Muskoka River

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North Branch Muskoka River to the Falls Bracebridge

North Branch Muskoka River to High Falls, north of Bracebridge

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Muskoka River is a river in the Canadian province of Ontario.

The actual Muskoka River is formed by the confluence of its two source rivers of North Branch Muskoka River and South Branch Muskoka River in the small town of Bracebridge. It flows for a distance of 8 km to the westerly Lake Muskoka. The outflow of Lake Muskoka, which in two arms - Moon River and Musquash River - splits, both of which open into the Georgian Bay was formerly assigned to the Muskoka River.

The Muskoka District Municipality extends over the catchment area of this river system, which extends to the Algonquin Provincial Park.

Both source rivers have a number of waterfalls and rapids, whose gradient is used by several smaller hydroelectric power plants since the beginning of the 20th century. The northern source river drains the Fairy Lake in Huntsville, while the southern source river flows out of the Lake of Bays. Both source rivers travel a distance of about 40 km.

Hydropower plants

On the South Branch Muskoka River on the following hydroelectric plants: Matthias 2.8 MW, 2 MW Trethewey Falls, Hannah Chute 1 MW, 5 MW South Falls.

On the North Branch Muskoka River also are still Wilson 's Falls 0.6 MW and 0.6 MW Bracebridge Falls.