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Qu'Appelle River

743 km from source to mouth · Canada.

CanadaCanadaFlows into Assiniboine River

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

In numbers

Length

743km

Average flow

14m³/s

Basin

51,000km²

Drop

202m

from 591 m to 389 m

Country

1

The journey

From source to mouth

743 km of river and 9 stops on the way: 1 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.

591 m389 m
Lake Diefenbakerat 591 m0 km
Eyebrow Lake5.9 km²102 km
Moose Jaw Rivertributary210 km
Last Mountain Lake214 km²269 km
Pasqua Lake32 km²383 km
Mission Lake7.8 km²395 km
Crooked Lake16 km²527 km
Round Lake12 km²569 km
Assiniboine Riverat 389 m743 km
0200400600743 km
  1. 0 kmLake Diefenbakerat 591 m
  2. 102 kmEyebrow Lake5.9 km²
  3. 210 kmMoose Jaw Rivertributary
  4. 269 kmLast Mountain Lake214 km²
  5. 383 kmPasqua Lake32 km²
  6. 395 kmMission Lake7.8 km²
  7. 412 kmKatepwa Lake16 km²
  8. 527 kmCrooked Lake16 km²
  9. 529 kmMarieval540 people
  10. 569 kmRound Lake12 km²
  11. 743 kmAssiniboine Riverat 389 m

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

River in Canada

At the mouth it carries 14 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 182 seconds. It drops from 591 m to 389 m, 0.3 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 51,000 km², about the size of CR. 316,000 people live in it. Highest water: June; lowest: from December to March. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.

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Where to start

  • MarievalLargest city on its banks · 540 people
  • Regina International Airport (YQR)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 142 km from the cityCar hire at YQR airport (Regina)Discover Cars · Affiliate link
  • On the water12 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
  • From June to AugustThe best months to visit

Qu'Appelle River, month by month

Highest water: June

Lowest water: from December to March. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from November to March. Best months to visit: from June to August.

11
-17°19 mmJan
11
-13°15 mmFeb
11
-7°20 mmMar
16
4°24 mmApr
16
11°46 mmMay
17
16°68 mmJun
15
19°58 mmJul
14
18°50 mmAug
14
11°44 mmSep
13
5°23 mmOct
13
-5°16 mmNov
12
-13°20 mmDec
Water (estimated flow)Air (average) Rain (mm)Best months

From about 11 m³/s in the lowest month to 17 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

Qu'Appelle River: the basin in numbers

45,194 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.

Free-flowingDams upstream can hold only 0.0% of a year's flow: the river still keeps its natural rhythm.
  • 316,000people live in the basin
  • 7/km²people per km²
  • 588maverage altitude of the basin
  • 390mmof rain a year (basin average)
  • 2.3°Caverage air temperature
  • 4%protected areas
  • 1.1%covered by lakes

What covers the basin

  • 3% Forest
  • 73% Cropland
  • 15% 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

Qu'Appelle River: what you find on the way

  • 58DamsCraven Dam and 57 more
  • 1Weirs
  • 12Boat ramps
  • 4River beachesPasqua Lake Beach, Echo Lake Beach, Lakeview Beach and 1 more

From OpenStreetMap, within 2.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.

Cross-checked with our atlases

Qu'Appelle 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.

  • 7lakes on its wayLakeyas

Lakes and reservoirs (7)

Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas

  1. Eyebrow Lakekm 715.9km²
  2. Last Mountain Lakekm 186 · 35 m deep214km²
  3. Pasqua Lakekm 26632km²
  4. Mission Lakekm 2747.8km²
  5. Katepwa Lakekm 28616km²
  6. Crooked Lakekm 36616km²
  7. Round Lakekm 39412km²

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From space

The source and the mouth, seen from orbit

Qu'Appelle River: satellite view of the source
The source14 km across
Qu'Appelle River: satellite view of the mouth
The mouth29 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

Qu'Appelle River in pictures

Bridge over the Qu'Appelle
Kevin Saff from Minneapolis, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
Theawesomequappellevalleykjfmartin
Kjfmartin · CC BY-SA 3.0
Qu'appelle river St Lazare
Words in the Wind · CC BY 4.0
Sk Hwy 9 Qu'Appelle Valley
Masterhatch · CC0

Tributaries

Where it flows, and what flows into it

It flows into

Assiniboine RiverCanadaCanada1,275 km45 m³/s

Tributaries (2)

Also: Moose Jaw River, Last Mountain Creek

In the same basin

Nelson RiverCanadaCanada644 km2,800 m³/sSaskatchewan RiverCanadaCanada547 km700 m³/sNorth Saskatchewan RiverCanadaCanada1,380 km240 m³/sSouth Saskatchewan RiverCanadaCanada1,000 km250 m³/sRed River of the NorthCanadaCanada890 km260 m³/sBow RiverCanadaCanada587 km130 m³/sRed Deer RiverCanadaCanada801 km70 m³/sOldman RiverCanadaCanada445 km95 m³/sWinnipeg RiverCanadaCanada298 km950 m³/sSouris RiverCanadaCanada1,240 km60 m³/s

Nearby

Rivers nearby

Souris RiverCanadaCanada1,240 km60 m³/s152 km awayYellowstone RiverUnited StatesUnited States1,114 km390 m³/s336 km awaySaskatchewan RiverCanadaCanada547 km700 m³/s339 km awayRed River of the NorthCanadaCanada890 km260 m³/s319 km awayWinnipeg RiverCanadaCanada298 km950 m³/s350 km awayNorth Saskatchewan RiverCanadaCanada1,380 km240 m³/s404 km awaySouth Saskatchewan RiverCanadaCanada1,000 km250 m³/s404 km awayMilk RiverUnited StatesUnited States1,173 km17 m³/s449 km away

Where these numbers come from

Name, length, placesWikidata (Q391566) · 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 atlasesLakeyas — 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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