Kenamu River
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Kenamu River Tshenuamiu-shipu |
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| location | Labrador , Newfoundland and Labrador ( Canada ) | |
| River system | Kenamu River | |
| origin | Mercier Lake 52 ° 54 ′ 49 ″ N , 60 ° 42 ′ 29 ″ W. |
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| Source height | approx. 410 m | |
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Lake Melville Coordinates: 53 ° 28 ′ 56 " N , 59 ° 54 ′ 31" W 53 ° 28 ′ 56 " N , 59 ° 54 ′ 31" W |
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| Mouth height | 3.5 m | |
| Height difference | approx. 406.5 m | |
| Bottom slope | approx. 2.2 ‰ | |
| length | approx. 185 km | |
| Catchment area | 4403 km² | |
The Kenamu River , also Tshenuamiu-shipu , is an approximately 185 km long tributary of Lake Melville in the south of the Labrador Peninsula in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador .
River course
The Kenamu River forms the outlet of the 410 m high Mercier Lake , 50 km south-southwest of Happy Valley-Goose Bay in the south of Labrador . It initially flows 60 km to the southeast. Then it turns north-northeast and finally north. At river km 90, the Trans-Labrador Highway ( Route 510 ) crosses the river. The Kenamu River cuts through the far west of the Mealy Mountains before flowing into the south shore of Lake Melville. The Kenamu River drains an area of 4403 km².
Fish fauna
The following fish species are found in the Kenamu River: Atlantic salmon , brook trout (anadromous and non-anadromous form), three- spined stickleback , burbot , the sucker carp species Catostomus commersonii (white sucker) and Catostomus catostomus (longnose sucker), herring marsh , Prosopium cylindraceum (round whitefish), arctic smelt and Atlantic sturgeon .
Web links
- Kenamu River at Natural Resources Canada
Individual evidence
- ^ Government of Canada: Historical Hydrometric Data Search Results: Station 03PD001
- ↑ a b TC Anderson: The Rivers of Labrador (PDF, 9.5 MB) Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 81, p. 133, 1985. Accessed September 5, 2018.