Wabano River

Wabano River
Location
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Mauricie
Physical characteristics
Mouth
⁃ coordinates	48°20′34″N74°02′30″W / 48.34278°N 74.04167°W Coordinates: 48°20′34″N74°02′30″W / 48.34278°N 74.04167°W
Length	65 km (40 mi)

Last updated August 05, 2019

The Wabano River flows from north to south, in the Laurentian mountains in the territory of La Tuque, in Mauricie, the province of Quebec, in Canada. Wabano river drains an area located east of Gouin Reservoir.

La Tuque is a city located in north-central Quebec, Canada, on the Saint-Maurice River, between Trois-Rivières and Chambord. The population was 11,227 at the Canada 2011 Census, most of which live within the urban area.

Mauricie Administrative region in Quebec, Canada

Mauricie is a traditional and current administrative region of Quebec. La Mauricie National Park is contained within the region, making it a prime tourist location. The region has a land area of 35,855.22 km² and a 2006 census population of 258,928 residents. Its largest cities are Trois-Rivières and Shawinigan.

Quebec is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is bordered to the west by the province of Ontario and the bodies of water James Bay and Hudson Bay; to the north by Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay; to the east by the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the province of Newfoundland and Labrador; and to the south by the province of New Brunswick and the US states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York. It also shares maritime borders with Nunavut, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia. Quebec is Canada's largest province by area and its second-largest administrative division; only the territory of Nunavut is larger. It is historically and politically considered to be part of Central Canada.

Geography

The estimated length of the river is 65 km.^[1] The Wabano River has four branches, the most important is the Wabano West River. The river is fed from the west, by including the discharge of lakes Levasseur and Berlinguet. Several lakes of lower throughput and a smaller surface, are feeding the course of the river.

Wabano River is the first tributary of the Saint-Maurice River, just downstream hydroelectric dam Gouin Reservoir. Wabano River flows from north to south sometimes serpentine, fully in forest area. Its mouth is located sixty kilometers north of Wemotaci and Sanmaur .

Saint-Maurice River river of the North shore of St. Lawrence, in Mauricie, in Quebec, in Canada

The Saint-Maurice River flows North to South in central Quebec from Gouin Reservoir to empty into the Saint Lawrence River at Trois-Rivières, in the province of Quebec, in Canada. From its source at Gouin Reservoir, located at the same latitude as the Lac Saint-Jean, the river has a total drop of about 405 meters, to finally reach the St. Lawrence river at Trois-Rivières. The river is 563 km in length and has a drainage basin of 43,300 km². Saint-Maurice river is one of the most important tributaries of the St. Lawrence river.

The Gouin Reservoir is a man-made lake, in La Tuque, in Mauricie, in the central portion of the Canadian provinceof Quebec, fully within the boundaries of the City of La Tuque. It is not one contiguous body of water, but the collective name for a series of connected lakes separated by innumerable bays, peninsulas, and islands with highly irregular shapes. It has therefore a relative long shoreline of over 5,600 km compared to its surface area of 1,570 km². It is the source of the Saint-Maurice River.

Sanmaur is a village in the Haute-Mauricie, in La Tuque, in Québec, Canada. Sanmaur was incorporated into the city of La Tuque in 2003.

A forest path goes along the river Wabano, on the west side between the mouth and the first branch of the river (Wabano West River).

Toponymy

Attikamek designated this river under the toponym "Cousapsigan". At the end of the nineteenth century, the river was sometimes called "Rivière de Jonglerie" (River of Juggling); this designation is similar to the word wizard, or the French equivalent of the word "Wabano". In 1824, the explorer and trader Francis Verreault has designated this water body "River Wizard" in his testimony to the House of Assembly of Lower Canada.^[2]

The name "Wabano River" was recorded on December 5, 1968, at the Bank of place names in Commission de toponymie du Québec (Geographical Names Board of Québec).^[3]

The Commission de toponymie du Québec is the Government of Québec's public body responsible for cataloging, preserving, making official and publicize Québec's place names and their origins according to the province's toponymy rules. It also provides recommendations to the government with regard to toponymic changes.

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References

↑ Commission de toponymie du Québec
↑ Names and places of Quebec, the work of the Commission de toponymie du Québec (Geographical Names Board of Québec) published in 1994 and 1996 as an illustrated dictionary printed, and in that of a CD produced by Micro - Intel in 1997 from this dictionary.
↑ "Commission de toponymie du Québec (Geographical Names Board of Québec) - Bank of place names - River Wabano".

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[1] Commission de toponymie du Québec

[2] Names and places of Quebec, the work of the Commission de toponymie du Québec (Geographical Names Board of Québec) published in 1994 and 1996 as an illustrated dictionary printed, and in that of a CD produced by Micro - Intel in 1997 from this dictionary.

[3] "Commission de toponymie du Québec (Geographical Names Board of Québec) - Bank of place names - River Wabano".