Lake Winnipegos
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Winnipegosissee Lake Winnipegosis, Lac Winnipegosis |
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| Location of Lake Winnipegos | ||
| Geographical location | Manitoba (Canada) | |
| Tributaries | Red Deer River , Shoal River , Mossy River , Pelican River , Steeprock River, Bell River, North Duck River, Point River, Pine River | |
| Drain | Waterhen River | |
| Islands | Birch Island, Grand Island, Spruce Island | |
| Places on the shore | Shoal River , Duck Bay | |
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 30 ′ N , 100 ° 0 ′ W | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 254 m | |
| surface | 5 164 km² | |
| length | 220 km | |
| width | 20 km | |
| Maximum depth | 12 m | |
| Catchment area | 50,000 km² | |
The Winnipegosissee ( English Lake Winnipegosis ; French Lac Winnipegosis ) is an approx. 5164 km² (5374 km² including islands) large freshwater lake in the Canadian province of Manitoba .
Located about 300 km northwest of the provincial capital Winnipeg , it is Canada's eleventh largest lake and is almost ten times the size of Lake Constance . The lake drains an area of around 50,000 km². The outflow of Winnipegosis Lake is the Waterhen River , which flows into Lake Manitoba to the south .
Winnipegosis is a diminutive of the name of the neighboring, much larger Winnipegsee . Like its neighbors, the Manitoba and Winnipeg Lakes and the Lake of the Woods to the southeast, it emerged from the vast prehistoric Agassiz Lake , which once stretched over large parts of central North America.
