Brûlé Lake is a
lake
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in
geographic
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Stewart Township,
Nipissing District
Nipissing District is a district in Northeastern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario. It was created in 1858. The district seat is North Bay.
In 2016, the population was 83,150. The land area is ; the population density was , making it o ...
in
Northeastern
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Ontario
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,
Canada
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.
It is part of the
Saint Lawrence River
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drainage basin
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.
Brûlé Lake has five unnamed inflows: one at the east; one at the southeast; one at the south; one at the west; and one at the north. The primary outflow is an unnamed creek at the north which heads in the direction of
Jocko Lake, which flows via the
Jocko River and the
Ottawa River to the Saint Lawrence River.
The
Ontario Northland Railway runs along the northeast shore of the lake; the railway passes through the community of
Jocko about north of the lake.
See also
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List of lakes in Ontario
This is an incomplete list of lakes in Ontario, a province of Canada. There are over 250,000 lakes in Ontario, constituting around 20% of the world's fresh water supply.
Larger lake statistics
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References
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Lakes of Nipissing District