South Saskatchewan River
Sign in to saveriver in Alberta and Saskatchewan
Key facts
- Country
- Canada
- Provinces
- Alberta Saskatchewan
- Source confluence
- Oldman and Bow Rivers
- Location
- Municipal District of Taber , Alberta
- Coordinates
- 49°56′00″N 111°41′30″W / 49.93333°N 111.69167°W / 49.93333; -111.69167
- Elevation
- 700 m (2,300 ft)
- Mouth
- Saskatchewan River
- Length
- 1,392 km (865 mi)
- Basin size
- 146,100 km (56,400 sq mi)
- Average
- 249 m /s (8,800 cu ft/s)
- Left
- Bow River Red Deer River
- Right
- Oldman River
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river
- Country
- Canada
- Located in
- Alberta
- Shares border with
- Laird
- Image
- South Saskatchewan River.jpg
- Length
- 1004
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- Commons category
- South Saskatchewan River
- mouth of the watercourse
- Saskatchewan River
- watershed area
- 146100
- discharge
- 249
- origin of the watercourse
- Oldman River
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
The South Saskatchewan River is a major river in the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. The river begins at the confluence of the Bow and Oldman Rivers in southern Alberta and ends at the Saskatchewan River Forks in central Saskatchewan. The Saskatchewan River Forks is the confluence of the South and North Saskatchewan Rivers and is the beginning of the Saskatchewan River.
For the first half of the 20th century, the South Saskatchewan would completely freeze over during winter, creating spectacular ice breaks and dangerous conditions in Saskatoon, Medicine Hat, and elsewhere. At least one bridge in Saskatoon was destroyed by ice carried by the river. The construction of the Gardiner Dam in the 1960s, however, lessened the power of the river by diverting a substantial portion of the South Saskatchewan's natural flow into the Qu'Appelle River. By the 1980s many permanent sandbars had formed due to the lowering of the level of the river.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “South Saskatchewan River” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
4 mapped locations