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Nelson River
Sign in to saveriver that flows from Lake Winnipeg to Hudson's Bay
Key facts
- Country
- Canada
- Province
- Manitoba
- Source
- Lake Winnipeg
- Location
- Warren Landing , Manitoba
- Coordinates
- 53°41′20″N 97°50′52″W / 53.68889°N 97.84778°W / 53.68889; -97.84778
- Elevation
- 217 m (712 ft)
- Mouth
- Hudson Bay
- Length
- 644 km (400 mi)
- Basin size
- 1,072,300 km (414,000 sq mi)
- Average
- (Period: 1984–2018), 111 km /a (3,500 m /s) , 2,370 m /s (84,000 cu ft/s)
- Minimum
- 1,000 m /s (35,000 cu ft/s)
- Maximum
- 7,000 m /s (250,000 cu ft/s)
- River system
- Nelson River
- Left
- Burntwood River , Grass River
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river
- Country
- Canada
- Located in
- Manitoba
- Continent
- North America
- Image
- Nelson-bassin.png
- Length
- 644
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- lake on watercourse
- Lake Winnipeg
- Commons category
- Nelson River
- category for the water basin
- Category:Nelson Basin
- mouth of the watercourse
- Hudson Bay
- origin of the watercourse
- Lake Winnipeg
- watershed area
- 1093442
- discharge
- 2800
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Nelson River is a river of north-central North America, in the Canadian province of Manitoba. The river drains Lake Winnipeg and runs 644 kilometres (400 mi) before it ends in Hudson Bay near Port Nelson. Its full length (including the Saskatchewan River and Bow River) is 2,575 kilometres (1,600 mi), it has mean discharge of 2,370 cubic metres per second (84,000 cu ft/s), and has a drainage basin of 1,072,300 square kilometres (414,000 sq mi), of which 180,000 square kilometres (69,000 sq mi) is in the United States.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nelson River” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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