The Coldwater River is a
river
A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of wate ...
in the
Unorganized North Part of
Algoma District in
Northeastern
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Ontario
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, Canada. It is in the
Great Lakes Basin, is a tributary of
Lake Superior
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, and its entire course lies within
Lake Superior Provincial Park
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.
Course
The Coldwater River begins at
Black Lake, in
geographic
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Barager Township,
and travels south through geographic Broome Township, and the southeast corner of geographic Brimbacombe Township before flowing into geographic Giles Township,
where it takes in the right tributary June Creek, passes under
Ontario Highway 17, and reaches its mouth at Lake Superior.
Tributaries
*June Creek
See also
*
List of rivers of Ontario
This is the list of rivers which are in and flow through Ontario. The watershed list includes tributaries as well.
Dee River, flows between Three Mile Lake and Lake Rosseau.
List of rivers arranged by watershed Hudson Bay
Atlantic Ocean
...
References
Rivers of Algoma District
Tributaries of Lake Superior
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