Caniapiscau Reservoir

The Caniapiscau Reservoir is a reservoir on the upper Caniapiscau River in the administrative region of the Canadian province of . It is the largest body of water in Quebec and the second largest reservoir in Canada.
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  • Type: Lake
  • Description: large reservoir in Quebec, Canada
  • Also known as: Reservoir de Caniapiscau

Caniapiscau Reservoir

Latitude
54.16693° or 54° 10′ 1″ north
Longitude
-69.83212° or 69° 49′ 56″ west
Elevation
526 metres (1,726 feet)
Open location code
976G5589+Q5
Geo­Names ID
6121490
Wiki­data ID
Q1033302
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Bulgarian to Ukrainian—“Caniapiscau Reservoir” goes by many names.
  • Bulgarian: Каниаписко (язовир)
  • Bulgarian: Каниаписко
  • Cebuano: Réservoir de Caniapiscau
  • Chinese: 卡尼亞皮斯科水庫
  • Dutch: Caniapiscau Reservoir
  • Esperanto: Baseno Caniapiscau
  • Esperanto: Rezervujo Caniapiscau
  • French: réservoir Caniapiscau
  • French: réservoir de Caniapiscau
  • French: Réservoir de Caniapiscau
  • Georgian: კანიაპისკოს წყალსაცავი
  • German: Caniapiscau-Stausee
  • German: Lac Caniapiscau
  • German: Réservoir de Caniapiscau
  • Italian: bacino di Caniapiscau
  • Italian: Bacino di Caniapiscau
  • Latvian: Caniapiscau Reservoir
  • Latvian: Kaniapisko ezers
  • Latvian: Kaniapisko ūdenskrātuve
  • Latvian: Réservoir de Caniapiscau
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Caniapiscau Reservoir
  • Portuguese: Reservatório de Caniapiscau
  • Russian: Каниаписко (водохранилище)
  • Russian: Каниаписко
  • Russian: Каньяписко (водохранилище)
  • Spanish: Caniapiscau
  • Spanish: Embalse de Caniapiscau
  • Swedish: Kaniapiskausjön
  • Ukrainian: Каніапіско

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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Caniapiscau Reservoir”. Photo: Axel Drainville, CC BY 2.0.