Rivière Nottaway
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Rivière Nottaway Nottaway River |
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| location | Jamésie in Nord-du-Québec , Québec (Canada) | |
| River system | Rivière Nottaway | |
| origin |
Lac Matagami 50 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ N , 77 ° 28 ′ 10 ″ W. |
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| muzzle | in Rupert Bay in a side bay of James Bay 17 km southwest of Waskaganish Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 11 ″ N , 78 ° 55 ′ 38 ″ W 51 ° 19 ′ 11 ″ N , 78 ° 55 ′ 38 ″ W |
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0 m
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| length | 225 km (776 km from the source of the Rivière Mégiscane via the Rivière Bell ) | |
| Catchment area | 65,800 km² | |
| Discharge at the Lac Soscumica A Eo gauge : 57,500 km² |
MQ 1960/1982 Mq 1960/1982 |
1032 m³ / s 17.9 l / (s km²) |
| Outflow at the level at the mouth |
MQ |
1190 m³ / s |
| Left tributaries | Rivière Kitchigama | |
 Nottaway catchment area in yellow |
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The Rivière Nottaway ( English Nottaway River ) is a river in the Canadian province of Québec .
The river drains Lac Matagami and travels 225 km to the northwest before pouring into Rupert Bay at the southern end of James Bay . Its catchment area covers 65,800 km², its mean discharge is 1190 m³ / s. Measured from the source of the Rivière Mégiscane tributary , the total length is 776 km.
Significant lakes along the river are Lac Soscumica ( ⊙ ) and Lac Dusaux ( ⊙ ).
Rivière Nottaway, Rivière Broadback and Rivière Rupert were originally intended for electricity generation - as part of the Baie James hydropower project . But in 1972 the expansion of hydropower began further north at La Grande Rivière and Rivière Eastmain , so that the NBR project was postponed for the time being. With the decision to divert water from Rivière Rupert to La Grande Rivière, hydraulic engineering development of the Nottaway remains unlikely in the foreseeable future.
Toponym
In the seventeenth century the Iroquois invaded the Algonquin territory on James Bay along this river . When European cartographers began to depict the river, they called it Rivière des Iroquois , for example on the maps by Jean-Baptiste-Louis Franquelin in 1699, Guillaume Delisle in 1703 and Jacques-Nicolas Bellin in 1744.
Other variants of the name began to spread at the beginning of the 18th century, Noddaways from 1715, Nodaway around 1743, Nodaoay and Nodway " 1744. The geologists James Richardson and Albert Peter Low used the term in their reports of 1880 and 1885, respectively Notaway River : The current spelling Nottaway was established at the beginning of the 20th century and is believed to derive from the Algonquian expression nadowe , the word for "snake" used by the Algonquin tribes to defeat their enemies The Cree called this river Natuweu Nipi and the Iroquois called the river Nottaweou .
Tributaries
Main tributaries of the Nottaway are:
Web links
- Nottaway (Rivière) at the A la tête du Lac Soscumica gauge - hydrographic data from R-ArcticNET
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d The Atlas of Canada - Rivers
- ↑ Nottaway (Rivière) at the A la tête du Lac Soscumica gauge - hydrographic data from R-ArcticNET
- ^ A b Rivière Nottaway ( French ) Commission de toponymie du Québec. Archived from the original on October 12, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 10, 2011.
