Slave River
Sign in to saveriver in Alberta and Northwest Territories
Key facts
- Country
- Canada
- Location
- Peace-Athabasca Delta
- Coordinates
- 58°59′53″N 111°24′33″W / 58.99793°N 111.40906°W / 58.99793; -111.40906 ( Slave River origin )
- Elevation
- 210 m (690 ft)
- Length
- 434 km (270 mi)
- Basin size
- 616,400 km (238,000 sq mi)
- Average
- 3,414 m /s (120,600 cu ft/s) max: 7,930 m /s (280,000 cu ft/s) min: 543 m /s (19,200 cu ft/s) ( for Fitzgerald, Alberta )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river
- Country
- Canada
- Located in
- Northwest Territories
- Continent
- North America
- Image
- Fort Smith Nashornpelikane 1 98-07-01.jpg
- Length
- 434
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- Commons category
- Slave River
- mouth of the watercourse
- Mackenzie River
- watershed area
- 616400
- origin of the watercourse
- Lake Athabasca
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Encyclopedic overview
The Slave River is a Canadian river that flows from the confluence of the Rivière des Rochers and Peace River in northeastern Alberta and runs into Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories. The river's name is thought to derive from the name for the Slavey group of the Dene First Nations, Deh Gah Gotʼine, in the Athabaskan languages. The Chipewyan had displaced other native people from this region.
Rapids and kayaking
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Slave River” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations