River
Harricana River
533 km from source to mouth · Canada.
CanadaFlows into James Bay
In numbers
Length
533km
Average flow
570m³/s
Basin
29,300km²
Drop
292m
from 291 m to -1 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
533 km of river and 29 stops on the way: 1 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmLac Blouinat 291 m
- 0 kmLac Dutertre0.7 km²
- 1 kmLac Blouin14 km²
- 4 kmLac Calder0.4 km²
- 7 kmLac Faucher1.9 km²
- 17 kmLac De Montigny96 km²
- 70 kmLac La Motte112 km²
- 79 kmLac Figuery5.3 km²
- 86 kmAmos17,918 people
- 103 kmPont Émery-Sicard
- 121 kmLac Obalski19 km²
- 136 kmRivière Davytributary
- 177 kmRivière Desbouestributary
- 178 kmRivière Octavetributary
- 186 kmRivière Coignytributary
- 229 kmRivière Galetributary
- 277 kmRivière Plamondontributary
- 296 kmRivière Adamtributary
- 310 kmLac Paré0.5 km²
- 338 kmRivière Angletributary
- 339 kmLac Sirois0.4 km²
- 341 kmTurgeon Rivertributary
- 356 kmRivière Samsontributary
- 423 kmRivière Despreuxtributary
- 431 kmRivière Breynattributary
- 446 kmRivière Malouintributary
- 452 kmRivière Joncastributary
- 515 kmKesagami Rivertributary
- 515 kmAgain Rivertributary
- 515 kmCorner Rivertributary
- 533 kmJames Bayat -1 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
Tributary of James Bay (Ontario), crossing administrative region of Abitibi-Témiscamingue and Nord-du-Québec, in Quebec, in Canada.
At the mouth it carries 570 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 4.4 seconds. It drops from 291 m to -1 m, 0.5 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 29,300 km², about the size of AM. 59,000 people live in it. Highest water, with the snowmelt: from May to July; lowest: from January to April. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- AmosLargest city on its banks · 17,918 people
- Val-d'Or Airport (YVO)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 62 km from the cityCar hire at YVO airport (Val-d'Or)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water8 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe13 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to AugustThe best months to visit
Harricana River, month by month
Highest water: from May to July
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.
From about 350 m³/s in the lowest month to 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.
Plan the trip
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The basin
Harricana River: the basin in numbers
29,226 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 59,000people live in the basin
- 2/km²people per km²
- 273maverage altitude of the basin
- 853mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 0.1°Caverage air temperature
- 1%protected areas
- 2.8%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 71% 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
Harricana River: what you find on the way
- 1WaterfallsRapids
- 13RapidsRapides Katackisegidjiwag, Rapide Tegatagama and 11 more
- 7Boat ramps
- 1Marinas
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.1 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Harricana 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.
10lakes on its wayLakeyas
Lakes and reservoirs (10)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Lac Dutertrekm 00.7km²
- Lac Blouinkm 1 · 30 m deep14km²
- Lac Faucherkm 61.9km²
- Lac De Montignykm 1596km²
- Lac La Mottekm 62112km²
- Lac Figuerykm 705.3km²
- Lac Obalskikm 10719km²
- Lac Parékm 2740.5km²
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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
Harricana River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (30)
Also: Kesagami River, Turgeon River, Rivière Wawagosic, Again River, Rivière Breynat, Rivière Despreux, Rivière Malouin, Corner River, Rivière Joncas, Rivière Davy, Rivière Desboues, Rivière Gale, Rivière Laine, Rivière Miniac, Rivière Obalski, Rivière Samson, Rivière Plamondon, Rivière Adam, Rivière Angle, Rivière Baillairgé, Rivière Berry, Rivière Chevalier, Rivière Coigny, Rivière Courville
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Canada225 km1,200 m³/s60 km awayRivière RupertCanada763 km900 m³/s84 km awayAbitibi RiverCanada540 km320 m³/s81 km awayAlbany RiverCanada832 km1,400 m³/s178 km awayRivière EastmainCanada756 km1,000 m³/s152 km awayAttawapiskat RiverCanada748 km630 m³/s266 km awayGreat Whale RiverCanada726 km680 m³/s478 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q71996) · 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 | Lakeyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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