Lake Winnipeg
The Lake Winnipeg watershed is the second largest watershed in Canada and includes parts of four provinces and four U.S. States. The Lake Winnipeg drainage basin is nearly 1,000,000 km2 in size and is home to 5 million people.
Several major rivers flow into Lake Winnipeg including the Red, Winnipeg, and Saskatchewan rivers. These three rivers make up on average more than 60% of the total river flow into the lake. Some of the other rivers that flow into the lake include the Poplar, Berens, Pigeon,Manigotagan, Dauphin, Fisher, and Icelandic rivers. Only one river flows out of Lake Winnipeg, the Nelson River.
The surface area of Lake Winnipeg is about 23,750 km2. The lake covers about 3.7 % of the surface area of the Province of Manitoba. The lake is about 436 km in length, at its widest point; Lake Winnipeg is about 111 km across. On average, the lake is about 12 meters deep but at Black Island, it reaches its maximum depth of about 36 meters. The shoreline of the lake is nearly 1,750 km long.
March 2, 2007 2:22 PM | Category: Lake