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.
- Type: Stream
- Description: major river in Ontario and Quebec, Canada
- Also known as: “Kichi-Sìbì”, “Kitchissippi”, “Ottawa-Fluss”, “Ottawajoki”, “Outaouais”, “reka Ottawa”, “Riu dels Outaouais”, “Rivero Otavo”, “Riviere des Outaouais”, “rivière Outaouais”, “Атава (рака)”, “Река Отава”, “נהר אוטווה”, “نهر أوتوا”, “ओट्टावा नदी”, “キチシッビ”, and “キチシッピ”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Carillon hydroelectric generating station.
Carillon hydroelectric generating station
Industrial building
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Carillon and Pointe-Fortune.
Ottawa River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Ontario, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
45.56678° or 45° 34′ 0″ north
Longitude
-74.38254° or 74° 22′ 57″ west
Elevation
19 metres (62 feet)
Open location code
87Q7HJ88+PX
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Ottawa River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Outaouaisrivier”
- Arabic: “نهر أوتاوا”
- Armenian: “Օտավա գետ”
- Armenian: “Օտտավա”
- Asturian: “Ríu Ottawa”
- Basque: “Ottawa ibaia”
- Belarusian: “Атава”
- Bhojpuri: “ओटावा नदी”
- Bulgarian: “Отава”
- Catalan: “riu Ottawa”
- Catalan: “Riu Ottawa”
- Cebuano: “Ottawa River”
- Cebuano: “Rivière des Outaouais”
- Chinese: “渥太華河”
- Croatian: “Ottawa Rijeka”
- Croatian: “Ottawa”
- Czech: “Ottawa”
- Danish: “Ottawa River”
- Dutch: “Ottawa Rivier”
- Dutch: “Ottawa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر اوتاوا”
- Esperanto: “Otavo”
- Esperanto: “rivero Ottawa”
- Estonian: “Ottawa jõgi”
- Finnish: “Ottawa”
- French: “rivière des Outaouais”
- French: “Rivière des Outaouais”
- Galician: “río Ottawa”
- Galician: “Río Ottawa”
- German: “Ottawa”
- Hebrew: “אוטווה”
- Hindi: “ओटावा नदी”
- Icelandic: “Ottawa-fljót”
- Irish: “Abhainn Ottawa”
- Italian: “Ottawa River”
- Italian: “Ottawa”
- Japanese: “オタワ川”
- Korean: “오타와강”
- Kurdish: “Çemê Ottawa”
- Kurdish: “Çemê Ottawayê”
- Latin: “Ottavia (flumen)”
- Latin: “Ottavia”
- Lithuanian: “Otava”
- Malayalam: “ഒട്ടാവ നദി”
- Marathi: “ओटावा नदी”
- 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”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ottawa”
- Slovenian: “Ottawa”
- South Azerbaijani: “اوتاوا چایی”
- Spanish: “Río Ottawa”
- Swedish: “Ottawafloden”
- 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”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Saint-François-Xavier and Saint-Joseph-de-Carillon.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Barrage de Carillon and Lieu historique national du Canada du Canal-de-Carillon.
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