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Albany River

832 km from source to mouth · Canada.

CanadaCanadaFlows into James Bay

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SourceMouth
The river and every tributary in its basin, drawn from RiverATLAS (CC BY 4.0).

In numbers

Length

832km

Average flow

1,400m³/s

Basin

135,200km²

Drop

366m

from 365 m to -1 m

Country

1

The journey

From source to mouth

832 km of river and 31 stops on the way: 0 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.

365 m-1 m
Lake St. Josephat 365 m0 km
De Palma Lake4.3 km²64 km
Gumuly Lake1.0 km²163 km
Petawanga Lake38 km²176 km
Westerby Lake2.1 km²282 km
Kagiami Falls308 km
Ogoki Rivertributary390 km
Kenogami Rivertributary517 km
Henley Rivertributary534 km
James Bayat -1 m832 km
0200400600832 km
  1. 0 kmLake St. Josephat 365 m
  2. 0 kmLake St. Joseph506 km²
  3. 14 kmOsnaburgh Lake43 km²
  4. 27 kmAtikokiwam Lake19 km²
  5. 43 kmKagami Falls
  6. 52 kmAchapi Lake12 km²
  7. 64 kmDe Palma Lake4.3 km²
  8. 69 kmRorabeck Lake0.6 km²
  9. 105 kmSnowflake Lake3.2 km²
  10. 117 kmPatte Lake2.5 km²
  11. 119 kmUpper Eskakwa Falls
  12. 123 kmEskakwa Falls
  13. 126 kmSnake Falls
  14. 127 kmAnger Lake16 km²
  15. 137 kmHowells Lake3.6 km²
  16. 153 kmMiminiska Lake59 km²
  17. 153 kmMiminiska Falls
  18. 163 kmGumuly Lake1.0 km²
  19. 176 kmPetawanga Lake38 km²
  20. 187 kmKawitos Lake12 km²
  21. 197 kmEabamet Lake93 km²
  22. 214 kmTriangular Lake36 km²
  23. 224 kmSchist Lake3.3 km²
  24. 229 kmAbazotikichuan Lake11 km²
  25. 263 kmMakokibatan Lake60 km²
  26. 282 kmWesterby Lake2.1 km²
  27. 308 kmKagiami Falls
  28. 320 kmTom Flett Falls
  29. 325 kmMartin Falls
  30. 390 kmOgoki Rivertributary
  31. 517 kmKenogami Rivertributary
  32. 534 kmHenley Rivertributary
  33. 832 kmJames Bayat -1 m

Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.

River in Ontario, Canada

At the mouth it carries 1,420 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 1.8 seconds. It drops from 365 m to -1 m, 0.4 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 135,200 km², about the size of GR. 9,442 people live in it. Highest water, with the snowmelt: from June to August; lowest: from January to April. Its dams hold back little of its water (3.0% of a year's flow).

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Where to start

Albany River, month by month

Highest water: from June to August

Lowest water: from January to April. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from November to March. Melting snow makes up much of its water. Best months to visit: from June to August.

1,000
-21°36 mmJan
980
-18°28 mmFeb
980
-12°33 mmMar
980
-2°40 mmApr
1,400
6°56 mmMay
1,400
13°84 mmJun
1,500
17°95 mmJul
1,500
15°84 mmAug
1,200
9°81 mmSep
1,200
3°62 mmOct
1,200
-6°54 mmNov
1,100
-16°39 mmDec
Water (estimated flow)Air (average) Rain (mm)Best months

From about 980 m³/s in the lowest month to 1,500 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.

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The basin

Albany River: the basin in numbers

134,726 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.

Lightly regulatedReservoirs can hold 3.0% of a year's flow.
  • 9,442people live in the basin
  • 0/km²people per km²
  • 263maverage altitude of the basin
  • 741mmof rain a year (basin average)
  • -0.5°Caverage air temperature
  • 10%protected areas
  • 7.5%covered by lakes
  • 1%permafrost
  • 1.2km³held in reservoirs

What covers the basin

  • 74% Forest

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

Albany River: what you find on the way

  • 2DamsRat Rapids
  • 182RapidsFrenchmans Rapids and 181 more

From OpenStreetMap, within 2.5 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.

Cross-checked with our atlases

Albany 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.

  • 8waterfalls on the riverCascadyas
  • 20lakes on its wayLakeyas

Waterfalls (8)

On the river, by Cascadyas

  1. Kagami Fallskm 45
  2. Upper Eskakwa Fallskm 124
  3. Eskakwa Fallskm 128
  4. Snake Fallskm 131
  5. Miminiska Fallskm 160
  6. Kagiami Fallskm 320
  7. Tom Flett Fallskm 333
  8. Martin Fallskm 338

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Lakes and reservoirs (20)

Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas

  1. Lake St. Josephkm 0506km²
  2. Osnaburgh Lakekm 1443km²
  3. Atikokiwam Lakekm 2819km²
  4. Miminiska Lakekm 15959km²
  5. Petawanga Lakekm 18338km²
  6. Eabamet Lakekm 20593km²
  7. Triangular Lakekm 22336km²
  8. Makokibatan Lakekm 27360km²

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From space

The source and the mouth, seen from orbit

Albany River: satellite view of the source
The source14 km across
Albany River: satellite view of the mouth
The mouth50 km across

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

Albany River in pictures

Truckscrossingalbanyriver2004feb20
Rev40 · CC BY-SA 3.0

Tributaries

Where it flows, and what flows into it

Tributaries (6)

Also: Kenogami River, Ogoki River, Cat River, Pagashi River, Cheepay River, Henley River

Nearby

Rivers nearby

Attawapiskat RiverCanadaCanada748 km630 m³/s89 km awayAbitibi RiverCanadaCanada540 km320 m³/s143 km awayHarricana RiverCanadaCanada533 km570 m³/s178 km awayRivière RupertCanadaCanada763 km900 m³/s217 km awayRivière NottawayCanadaCanada225 km1,200 m³/s219 km awayRivière EastmainCanadaCanada756 km1,000 m³/s214 km awayWinisk RiverCanadaCanada600 km690 m³/s406 km awayGreat Whale RiverCanadaCanada726 km680 m³/s416 km away

Where these numbers come from

Name, length, placesWikidata (Q1241991) · CC0
Course, profile, basinRiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata
FlowWaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0
Climate along the riverWorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0
Towns, bridges, damsWikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0
Along the river© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Our other atlasesCascadyas, Lakeyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST

Every source and licence is on the data sources page.

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