River
Kazan River
817 km from source to mouth · Canada.
CanadaFlows into Baker Lake
In numbers
Length
817km
Average flow
460m³/s
Basin
71,500km²
Drop
271m
from 249 m to -22 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
817 km of river and 7 stops on the way: 0 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmEnnadai Lakeat 249 m
- 86 kmEnnadai Lake710 km²
- 267 kmNowleye Lake272 km²
- 284 kmCarruthers Lake282 km²
- 573 kmYathkyed Lake1,336 km²
- 644 kmTattanniq Lake266 km²
- 664 kmKunwak Rivertributary
- 741 kmThirty Mile Lake195 km²
- 817 kmBaker Lakeat -22 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
Watercourse in Nunavut, Canada
At the mouth it carries 456 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 5.5 seconds. It drops from 249 m to -22 m, 0.3 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 71,500 km², about the size of SL. Highest water, with the snowmelt: from June to August; lowest: from January to April. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- Baker LakeLargest city on its banks · 2,061 people
- Baker Lake Airport (YBK)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 4 km from the cityCar hire at YTH airport (Thompson)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- Kayak and canoe294 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From July to AugustThe best months to visit
Kazan River, month by month
Highest water: from June to August
Lowest water: from January to April. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from October to May. Melting snow makes up much of its water. Best months to visit: from July to August.
From about 370 m³/s in the lowest month to 520 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
Kazan River: the basin in numbers
72,733 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 260maverage altitude of the basin
- 295mmof rain a year (basin average)
- -10.5°Caverage air temperature
- 3%protected areas
- 23.2%covered by lakes
- 94%permafrost
What covers the basin
- 4% 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
Kazan River: what you find on the way
- 294Rapids
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.3 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Kazan 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.
6lakes on its wayLakeyas
Lakes and reservoirs (6)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Ennadai Lakekm 80710km²
- Nowleye Lakekm 247272km²
- Carruthers Lakekm 263282km²
- Yathkyed Lakekm 5301,336km²
- Tattanniq Lakekm 595266km²
- Thirty Mile Lakekm 685195km²
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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
Kazan River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (1)
Also: Kunwak River
In the same basin
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q719436) · 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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