Ottawa River
The Ottawa River is a river in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. It is named after the Algonquin word "to trade", as it was the major trade route of Eastern Canada at the time.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: major river in Ontario and Quebec, Canada
- Also known as: “Kichi-Sìbì”, “Kitchissippi”, “Riviere des Outaouais”, and “Rivière des Outaouais”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Carillon hydroelectric generating station.
Carillon hydroelectric generating station
Industrial building
Photo: Mac Armstrong, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Carillon generating station is a hydroelectric power station on the Ottawa River near Carillon, Quebec, Canada. Built between 1959 and 1964, it is managed and operated by Hydro-Québec.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Carillon and Pointe-Fortune.
Carillon
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Carillon is a former municipality and an unincorporated community in Saint-André-d'Argenteuil, Quebec, Canada. It is recognized as a designated place by Statistics Canada.
Pointe-Fortune
Photo: P199, Public domain.
Pointe-Fortune is a picturesque and modern municipality on the south shore of the Ottawa River, in the regional county municipality of Vaudreuil-Soulanges region of Montérégie, Quebec.
Saint-André-Est
Village
Photo: Cantons-de-l’Est, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Saint-André-Est is a village, which is situated 4 km east of Ottawa River.
Ottawa River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Ontario, Canada, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Ottawa River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Outaouaisrivier”
- Arabic: “نهر أوتاوا”
- Arabic: “نهر أوتوا”
- Armenian: “Օտավա գետ”
- Armenian: “Օտտավա”
- Asturian: “Ríu Ottawa”
- Basque: “Ottawa ibaia”
- Belarusian: “Атава (рака)”
- Belarusian: “Атава”
- Bhojpuri: “ओटावा नदी”
- Bhojpuri: “ओट्टावा नदी”
- Bulgarian: “Отава”
- Catalan: “Ottawa River”
- Catalan: “Riu dels Outaouais”
- Catalan: “riu Ottawa”
- Catalan: “Riu Ottawa”
- Catalan: “Rivière des Outaouais”
- Cebuano: “Ottawa River”
- Cebuano: “Rivière des Outaouais”
- Chinese: “渥太華河”
- Croatian: “Ottawa Rijeka”
- Croatian: “Ottawa”
- Czech: “Ottawa”
- Czech: “Outaouais”
- Danish: “Ottawa River”
- Dutch: “Ottawa River”
- Dutch: “Ottawa Rivier”
- Dutch: “Ottawa”
- Dutch: “Rivière des Outaouais”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر اوتاوا”
- Esperanto: “Otavo”
- Esperanto: “Rivero Otavo”
- Esperanto: “rivero Ottawa”
- Estonian: “Ottawa jõgi”
- Finnish: “Ottawa River”
- Finnish: “Ottawa”
- Finnish: “Ottawajoki”
- Finnish: “Rivière des Outaouais”
- French: “Kichi-Sìbì”
- French: “Kitchissippi”
- French: “Ottawa River”
- French: “Outaouais”
- French: “rivière des Outaouais”
- French: “Rivière des Outaouais”
- Galician: “río Ottawa”
- Galician: “Río Ottawa”
- German: “Ottawa River”
- German: “Ottawa-Fluss”
- German: “Ottawa”
- German: “Rivière des Outaouais”
- Hebrew: “אוטווה”
- Hebrew: “נהר אוטווה”
- Hindi: “ओटावा नदी”
- Icelandic: “Ottawa-fljót”
- Irish: “Abhainn Ottawa”
- Italian: “Ottawa River”
- Italian: “Ottawa”
- Italian: “Rivière des Outaouais”
- Japanese: “Kichi-Sìbì”
- Japanese: “Kitchissippi”
- Japanese: “オタワ川”
- Japanese: “キチシッビ”
- Japanese: “キチシッピ”
- Korean: “오타와강”
- Kurdish: “Çemê Ottawa”
- Kurdish: “Çemê Ottawayê”
- Latin: “Ottavia (flumen)”
- Latin: “Ottavia”
- Lithuanian: “Otava”
- Malayalam: “ഒട്ടാവ നദി”
- Marathi: “ओटावा नदी”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ottawa River”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ottawa”
- Norwegian: “Ottawa”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Ottawa”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Ribièra dels Ottawas”
- Panjabi: “ਓਟਾਵਾ ਨਦੀ”
- Persian: “رود اتاوا”
- Polish: “Ottawa”
- Portuguese: “Rio Ottawa”
- Romanian: “Râul Ottawa”
- Russian: “Оттава”
- Serbian: “Отава”
- Serbian: “Река Отава”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ottawa”
- Slovenian: “Ottawa River”
- Slovenian: “Ottawa”
- Slovenian: “reka Ottawa”
- South Azerbaijani: “اوتاوا چایی”
- Spanish: “Ottawa”
- Spanish: “Rio Ottawa”
- Spanish: “Río Ottawa”
- Swedish: “Ottawa River”
- Swedish: “Ottawafloden”
- Swedish: “Rivière des Outaouais”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำออตตาวา”
- Ukrainian: “Оттава”
- Uzbek: “Ottava”
- Venetian: “Fiume Ottawa”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Ottawa”
- Welsh: “Afon Ottawa”
- Wu Chinese: “渥太华河”
- Yue Chinese: “渥太華河”
- “ओटावा नदी”
Places with the Same Name
Discover other places named “Ottawa River”.
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Saint-François-Xavier and Saint-Joseph-de-Carillon.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Barrage de Carillon and Carillon Canal National Historic Site of Canada.
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