River
Abitibi River
540 km from source to mouth · Canada.
CanadaFlows into Moose River
In numbers
Length
540km
Average flow
320m³/s
Basin
29,500km²
Drop
277m
from 286 m to 9 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
540 km of river and 19 stops on the way: 1 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmLake Abitibiat 286 m
- 17 kmLac Macamic46 km²
- 59 kmRivière Duparquettributary
- 140 kmJam Lake0.3 km²
- 148 kmCouchiching Falls
- 157 kmBobs Lake0.7 km²
- 180 kmLake Abitibi947 km²
- 180 kmTwin Falls
- 188 kmBlack Rivertributary
- 195 kmLac à Booth8.8 km²
- 196 kmIroquois Falls4,232 people
- 206 kmCole Lake0.4 km²
- 206 kmNellie Lake0.8 km²
- 217 kmMary Lake0.3 km²
- 219 kmTom Lake0.5 km²
- 255 kmDora Lake0.6 km²
- 271 kmGardiner Lake0.4 km²
- 293 kmFrederick House Rivertributary
- 301 kmEddie Lake2.2 km²
- 441 kmLittle Abitibi Rivertributary
- 540 kmMoose Riverat 9 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
Tributary of the Moose River, in northeastern Ontario, Canada
At the mouth it carries 318 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 7.9 seconds. It drops from 286 m to 9 m, 0.5 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 29,500 km², about the size of AM. 46,000 people live in it. Highest water, with the snowmelt: from May to July; lowest: from December to March. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (21% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- Iroquois FallsLargest city on its banks · 4,232 people
- Timmins/Victor M. Power (YTS)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 56 km from the cityCar hire at YTS airport (Timmins)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water5 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe46 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to AugustThe best months to visit
Abitibi River, month by month
Highest water: from May to July
Lowest water: from December to March. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from December to March. Melting snow makes up much of its water. Best months to visit: from June to August.
From about 250 m³/s in the lowest month to 380 m³/s in the highest. An estimate: the monthly flow is modelled from the lowest and highest months of WaterGAP (RiverATLAS, 1971–2000) and the rain and snow along the river (WorldClim). Dams change the real rhythm. The chip is the average air temperature; below it, the month's rain.
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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The basin
Abitibi River: the basin in numbers
28,780 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 46,000people live in the basin
- 2/km²people per km²
- 268maverage altitude of the basin
- 832mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 0.6°Caverage air temperature
- 4%protected areas
- 6.1%covered by lakes
- 2.1km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 78% Forest
- 1% Cropland
- 1% Pasture
RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.
Along the river
Abitibi River: what you find on the way
- 1WaterfallsNew Post Falls
- 46RapidsBuckdeer Rapids, Long Sault Rapids, Sextant Rapids and 43 more
- 3Boat ramps
- 2Ferry piers
- 2River beachesPlage Macamic, Plage publique de l'ile Népawa
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.1 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Abitibi River in our other atlases
What our sister atlases know about the waterfalls on this river, the lakes it flows through, the beaches at its mouth, the mountains where it rises and the islands off its mouth.
3waterfalls on the riverCascadyas
12lakes on its wayLakeyas
Waterfalls (3)
On the river, by Cascadyas
- Couchiching Fallskm 147
- Twin Fallskm 180
- Iroquois Fallskm 195
Cascadyas is coming soonOpen Cascadyas ↗
Lakes and reservoirs (12)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Lac Macamickm 1746km²
- Jam Lakekm 1400.3km²
- Bobs Lakekm 1560.7km²
- Lake Abitibikm 180 · 4 m deep947km²
- Lac à Boothkm 1948.8km²
- Dora Lakekm 2540.6km²
- Gardiner Lakekm 2700.4km²
- Eddie Lakekm 3002.2km²
4 more on LakeyasLakeyas is coming soonOpen Lakeyas ↗
From space
The source and the mouth, seen from orbit
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The glowing line is the river as drawn by RiverATLAS.
Photos
Abitibi River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (5)
Also: Frederick House River, Little Abitibi River, Rivière La Sarre, Black River, Rivière Duparquet
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q59647) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata |
| Flow | WaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Climate along the river | WorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Towns, bridges, dams | Wikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Along the river | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Our other atlases | Cascadyas, Lakeyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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