Rivière Saint-Jean (Minganie)
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| location | Côte-Nord in Québec (Canada) | |
| River system | Rivière Saint-Jean | |
| source | east of Lac Bellanca near the Newfoundland and Labrador border 51 ° 37 ′ 45 ″ N , 64 ° 24 ′ 4 ″ W |
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| Source height | 664 m | |
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St. Lawrence Gulf Coordinates: 50 ° 17 ′ 0 ″ N , 64 ° 20 ′ 4 ″ W 50 ° 17 ′ 0 ″ N , 64 ° 20 ′ 4 ″ W |
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| Mouth height | 0 m | |
| Height difference | 664 m | |
| Bottom slope | 2.6 ‰ | |
| length | 256 km | |
| Catchment area | 5594 km² | |
| Drain |
MQ |
128 m³ / s |
| Left tributaries | Rivière Saint-Jean Nord-Est | |
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Rivière Saint-Jean is a river in the Côte-Nord administrative region of the Canadian province of Québec .
The river has its origin on the Canadian Shield in the center of the Labrador Peninsula near the border with Newfoundland and Labrador . From there, the 256 km long river flows south through the regional county town of Minganie and finally flows into the St. Lawrence Gulf . The catchment area is 5594 km², the mean discharge 128 m³ / s. The Rivière Romaine runs east of the Rivière Saint-Jean , west of the Rivière Magpie . The estuary is opposite the western tip of the island of Anticosti .
fauna
The Rivière Saint-Jean is a major salmon river in southeast Canada.
Eleven fish species are known in the river, including the Atlantic salmon , the anadromous migratory form of the rainbow trout , and the rainbow trout , which only occurs in freshwater. The river fauna also includes the suction carp Catostomus catostomus , the pike , the three-spined stickleback , the American eel , the Atlantic tomcod and the burbot .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Bureau Audiences publiques sur l'environnement (PDF; 103 kB)
- ↑ a b Saumon Québec ( Memento of the original from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
