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Manicouagan Reservoir (also Lake Manicouagan / m æ n ɪ k w ɑː ɡ ən,-ɡ ɒ̃ /; French: [manikwaɡɑ̃]) is an annular lake in central Quebec, Canada, covering an area of 1,942 km 2 (750 sq mi). The lake island in its centre is known as René-Levasseur Island , and its highest point is Mount Babel .
With an area of 23,540 hectares, which makes it - by far - the largest of the entire Quebec network, the Louis-Babel Ecological Reserve occupies Mount Babel, in the northern part of the René-Levasseur Island (Manicouagan Reservoir). It is located in unorganized territory of the Regional County Municipality of Manicouagan.
René-Levasseur Island is a large island in the centre of Lake Manicouagan in Quebec, Canada. Its highest peak is Mount Babel, at 952 m (3,123 feet), which is contained in the Louis-Babel Ecological Reserve. With a total area of 2,020 km 2 (and a diameter of 50.7 km), the island is larger in area than the annular lake in which it
The area was designated as such by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 2007. The landscape of the Manicouagan – Uapishka Biosphere Reserve is dominated by the Saint Lawrence River to the south and the Manicouagan reservoir to the north, forming a circle visible from great distances, even from space ...
Zec Nordique covers an area of 458.3 square kilometers in the heart of the MRC La Haute-Côte-Nord Regional County Municipality (Upper North Shore). ZEC has a total of 150 km of motorable roads and 211 lakes, where a hundred followers practice sport fishing. Area of lakes varies from 2 to 390 hectares. The boundaries of the Nordic ZEC are ...
The Petit lac Manicouagan is in the watershed of the Beaupré River, a tributary of the Manicouagan Reservoir. The lake contains 1,430,000,000 cubic metres (5.0 × 10 10 cu ft) of water and covers 251.60 square kilometres (97.14 sq mi). The watershed covers 4,553 square kilometres (1,758 sq mi).
Coincidentally, the reservoir itself is the fifth largest in the world as well. [21] The reservoir has a maximum depth of 350 m (1,150 ft), mean depth of 85 m (279 ft) and contains 142 km 3 (34 cu mi) of water. While draining an area of 29,241 km (18,170 mi), it has a surface area of 1,950 km 2 (750 sq mi) and shoreline of 1,322 km (821 mi).
The Manicouagan Reservoir, a circular lake that covers the Manicouagan impact structure, is almost entirely located within the territory. Quebec Route 389, running for a large part between the Outardes and Manicouagan Rivers, provides access to the territory and the hydroelectric installations along these rivers. It is an isolated highway with ...