Caniapiscau Reservoir
The Caniapiscau Reservoir is a reservoir on the upper Caniapiscau River in the Côte-Nord administrative region of the Canadian province of Quebec. It is the largest body of water in Quebec and the second largest reservoir in Canada.
- Type: Lake
- Description: large reservoir in Quebec, Canada
- Also known as: “Baseno Caniapiscau”, “Caniapiscau”, “Kaniapisko ezers”, “Lac Caniapiscau”, “réservoir Caniapiscau”, “Reservoir de Caniapiscau”, and “Каньяписко (водохранилище)”
Caniapiscau Reservoir
- Categories: reservoir and body of water
- Location: Quebec, Canada, North America
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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
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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: “Rezervujo Caniapiscau”
- French: “réservoir de Caniapiscau”
- French: “Réservoir de Caniapiscau”
- Georgian: “კანიაპისკოს წყალსაცავი”
- German: “Caniapiscau-Stausee”
- Italian: “bacino di Caniapiscau”
- Italian: “Bacino di Caniapiscau”
- Latvian: “Kaniapisko ūdenskrātuve”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Caniapiscau Reservoir”
- Portuguese: “Reservatório de Caniapiscau”
- Russian: “Каниаписко (водохранилище)”
- Russian: “Каниаписко”
- Spanish: “Embalse de Caniapiscau”
- Swedish: “Kaniapiskausjön”
- Ukrainian: “Каніапіско”
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