Key facts
- Location
- Manitoba
- Lake type
- Glacial lake
- Primary inflows
- Waterhen River , Whitemud River
- Primary outflows
- Fairford River
- Catchment area
- 54,630 km (21,090 sq mi)
- Basin countries
- Canada
- Max length
- 200 km (120 mi)
- Max width
- 45 km (28 mi)
- Surface area
- 4,624 km (1,785 sq mi)
- Max depth
- 7 m (23 ft)
- Water volume
- 14.1 km (3.4 cu mi)
- Residence time
- North basin: 2 years; South basin: 28 years
- Salinity
- 0.35‰ ( hyposaline )
- Surface elevation
- 247 m (812 ft)
- Settlements
- Fairford , Steep Rock , St. Laurent , Sandy Bay
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lake
- Country
- Canada
- Located in
- Manitoba
- Area
- 4624
- Elevation
- 248
- Image
- Lake Winnipeg map NL.png
- Width
- 45
- Length
- 200
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- outflows
- Fairford River
- Commons category
- Lake Manitoba
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- residence time of water
- 9.54
- vertical depth
- 7
- watershed area
- 54631
- basin country
- Canada
- volume as quantity
- 14.1
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Encyclopedic overview
Lake Manitoba (French: Lac Manitoba) is the 14th largest lake in Canada and the 31st largest lake in the world with a total area of 4,624 square kilometres (1,785 sq mi). It is located within the Canadian province of Manitoba about 75 kilometres (47 mi) northwest of the province's capital, Winnipeg, at 50°59′N 98°48′W / 50.983°N 98.800°W / 50.983; -98.800.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lake Manitoba” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.