River
Peel River
684 km from source to mouth · Canada.
CanadaFlows into Mackenzie River
In numbers
Length
684km
Average flow
700m³/s
Basin
73,600km²
Drop
578m
from 404 m to -174 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
684 km of river and 19 stops on the way: 0 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 404 m
- 23 kmBlackstone Rivertributary
- 23 kmOgilvie Rivertributary
- 87 kmHart Rivertributary
- 181 kmWind Rivertributary
- 212 kmBonnet Plume Rivertributary
- 287 kmSnake Rivertributary
- 470 kmGwitshih Diinee Lake1.5 km²
- 505 kmTl'oo Vàn0.6 km²
- 519 kmYiditshuu Lake1.1 km²
- 597 kmTł’oo Vàn Choo0.8 km²
- 597 kmNataiinlaii Gwint’ii Van0.6 km²
- 601 kmDalts’an Jìthìnùu Vàn0.8 km²
- 609 kmZheh Gwajàt Vàn0.6 km²
- 614 kmChii Tsal Vàn0.4 km²
- 618 kmAat’oo Zhìt Van0.4 km²
- 619 kmK’iichii Vàn0.4 km²
- 636 kmK’àii T’ih Khàtaiin’ee Vàn1.1 km²
- 641 kmTadiitr’ahkhaa Van1.6 km²
- 658 kmTł’oo Van Choo0.9 km²
- 684 kmMackenzie Riverat -174 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in the Yukon and Northwest Territories of Canada
At the mouth it carries 697 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 3.6 seconds. It drops from 404 m to -174 m, 0.8 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 73,600 km², about the size of SL. Highest water, with the snowmelt: May; lowest: from January to April. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- InuvikLargest city on its banks · 3,243 people
- Inuvik Mike Zubko Airport (YEV)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 12 km from the cityCar hire in WhitehorseDiscover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water2 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to JulyThe best months to visit
Peel River, month by month
Highest water: May
Lowest water: from January to April. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from October to April. Melting snow makes up much of its water. Best months to visit: from June to July.
From about 110 m³/s in the lowest month to 2,400 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
Peel River: the basin in numbers
73,955 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 876people live in the basin
- 859maverage altitude of the basin
- 327mmof rain a year (basin average)
- -7.9°Caverage air temperature
- 2%protected areas
- 0.9%covered by lakes
- 88%permafrost
What covers the basin
- 6% 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
Peel River: what you find on the way
- 2Ferry piers
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.3 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Peel 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.
13lakes on its wayLakeyas
Lakes and reservoirs (13)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Gwitshih Diinee Lakekm 3061.5km²
- Tl'oo Vànkm 3290.6km²
- Yiditshuu Lakekm 3381.1km²
- Tł’oo Vàn Chookm 3890.8km²
- Dalts’an Jìthìnùu Vànkm 3920.8km²
- K’àii T’ih Khàtaiin’ee Vànkm 4151.1km²
- Tadiitr’ahkhaa Vankm 4181.6km²
- Tł’oo Van Chookm 4290.9km²
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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
Peel River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Mackenzie RiverCanada1,738 km10,700 m³/sTributaries (7)
Also: Bonnet Plume River, Wind River, Ogilvie River, Blackstone River, Snake River, Hart River, Rat River
In the same basin
Canada1,923 km2,100 m³/sLiard RiverCanada1,115 km2,400 m³/sAthabasca RiverCanada1,231 km620 m³/sSlave RiverCanada434 km3,500 m³/sFinlay RiverCanada420 km600 m³/sSouth Nahanni RiverCanada540 km400 m³/sHay RiverCanada702 km130 m³/sSmoky RiverCanada492 km340 m³/sGreat Bear RiverCanada113 km530 m³/sWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q2067014) · 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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