Kenogami lake is a long

lake A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, surrounded by land, and distinct from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake. Lakes lie on land and are not part of the ocean, although, like the much large ...

in the

Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean (, ) is a region in Quebec, Canada. It contains the Saguenay Fjord, the estuary of the Saguenay River, stretching through much of the region. It is also known as Sagamie in French, from the first part of "Saguenay" and th ...

region of south-central

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. Situated at an altitude of , the lake is long and deep. "Kénogami" means "long lake" in the Montagnais dialect and was originally used to refer to

Kenogami Lake, Ontario Kenogami Lake is an unincorporated place and community in the Unorganized West Part of Timiskaming District in northeastern Ontario, Canada. It is located on Kenogami Lake on the Blanche River in the Saint Lawrence River drainage basin. Transpor ...

. It is situated in the

Laurentian Highlands The Laurentian Upland (or Laurentian Highlands) is a physiographic region which, when referred to as the "Laurentian Region" or the Grenville geological province, is recognized by Natural Resources Canada as one of five provinces of the larger ...

north of the

Saint Lawrence River The St. Lawrence River (french: Fleuve Saint-Laurent, ) is a large river in the middle latitudes of North America. Its headwaters begin flowing from Lake Ontario in a (roughly) northeasterly direction, into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, connectin ...

, into which it drains via the

Saguenay River __NOTOC__ The Saguenay River () is a major river of Quebec, Canada. It drains Lac Saint-Jean in the Laurentian Highlands, leaving at Alma and running east; the city of Saguenay is located on the river. It drains into the Saint Lawrence River. T ...

through the

Chicoutimi Chicoutimi () is the most populous borough (arrondissement) of the city of Saguenay in Quebec, Canada. It is situated at the confluence of the Saguenay and Chicoutimi rivers. During the 20th century, it became the main administrative and com ...

and Aux-Sables Rivers. The lake is fed by dozens of small rivers coming from the

. The three principal being the Pikauba, Cyriac and Aux-Ecorces Rivers. The towns on its shores include Lac-Kénogami, and Hébertville station. The area around the lake is served on the east side by route 175 (boulevard Talbot); on the north side by the Kénogami road, the Route des Bâtisseurs and the Saint-Dominique street in

Jonquière Jonquière (; ; 2021 population: 60,250) is a borough (arrondissement) of the city of Saguenay in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada. It is located on the Saguenay River, near the borough of Chicoutimi. History Jonquière ...

. A few secondary roads have been built in the area for the needs of hydroelectricity, forestry, recreational tourism and residents of this area (especially the northern part of the lake).Kénogami OpenStreetMap - Accessed December 20, 2019
/ref> Hydroelectricity is the main economic activity in this sector; recreational tourism activities, second; forestry, third. The surface of Lake Kénogami is usually frozen from the beginning of December to the end of March, however the safe circulation on the ice is generally made from mid-December to mid-March.

Geography

Having for main hydrographic basin the

Laurentides Wildlife Reserve Réserve faunique des Laurentides (), also known by its former name of parc des Laurentides, is a wildlife reserve in Quebec, Canada, located between Quebec City and the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region. This reserve is part of the network of ...

(by rivers Pikauba,

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and aux Écorces), this body of water, with an area of and a volume of 380 million m3 of water, is the source of the rivers

and Aux Sables. On its shores are the municipalities of

Hébertville Hébertville is a municipality in Quebec, Canada. History Hébertville was founded in 1849 and is named for the priest Nicolas-Tolentin Hébert (1810-1888), the son of Jean-Baptiste Hébert, a Patriot representative jailed in Montreal in 183 ...

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and the former municipalities of Laterrière and Lac-Kénogami now part of the city of Saguenay. The reservoir waters are retained by the dams Portage-des-Roches, Pibrac-Est and Pibrac-Ouest as well as the Ouiqui, Baie- dikes Cascouia, Moncouche, Coulée-Gagnon, Creek Outlet (1, 2 and 3) and Pibrac (East and West). This lake has two outlets: *

Chicoutimi River The Chicoutimi River is a watercourse of eastern Quebec, Canada. A tributary of the Saguenay River, which it meets in the city of Saguenay, it is the main outlet of Kenogami Lake, which rises from a watershed of in the Laurentides Wildlife Reser ...

(east side) whose entrance is bounded by the

barrage de Portage-des-Roches The Portage-des-Roches dam (''Portage-des-Roches being the translation of the Montagnais'' ''Ashini Kushnapagan'') or '' Taschereau Dam'' (in honor of ''Louis-Alexandre Taschereau'') is a dam located in the Laterrière sector of borough Chicoutimi ...

; * rivière aux Sables (north side) whose entrance is bounded by the Pibrac West dam. The main characteristics (bays, points, islands) around the lake are (clockwise from the outlet

): South Shore * Villa Marie bay, * Moncouche bay (outlet of the

Simoncouche River The Rivière Simoncouche is a tributary of Kenogami Lake, flowing the unorganized territory of Lac-Ministuk (MRC Le Fjord-du-Saguenay Regional County Municipality) and in the territory of the city of Saguenay (sector Kénogami), in the administr ...

), * the Pier-à-Chabot, * Pointe aux Bouleaux, * McDonald tip, * McDonald Bay (receiving the McDonald Creek outlet), * Cabland du Chaland bay, * Finnigan point, * Pointe du Caribou, North Shore * point Raphaël, * points to Harvey, * Epiphanes bay, * Dufour bay, * bay at Cadie, * Pointe aux Sables, * bay Gélinas, * Chouinard Bay, * Théophile bay Épiphane Bay and Cascouia Bay * bay at Simon's, * Pointe de Sable, * Camp lake, * Clover Bay, * bay to Richard, * Lac à Jean bay * Saint-Édouard Island, * Dufour bay, * Gagné bay, * notch of the Curé, Around Jean-Guy Island * Green Island, * Neighbor Bay, * green island, * Voisine Island. Main buildings around the lake * Saint-Cyriac Chapel * Price retirees center From the

, corresponding to the mouth of Lake Kénogami, the current follows the course of the

on towards the east, then the northeast and the course of the

on eastward to

Tadoussac Tadoussac () is a village in Quebec, Canada, at the confluence of the Saguenay and Saint Lawrence rivers. The indigenous Innu call the place ''Totouskak'' (plural for ''totouswk'' or ''totochak'') meaning "bosom", probably in reference to the t ...

where it merges with the

Saint Lawrence estuary The estuary of the Saint Lawrence in Quebec, Canada, is one of the largest esturaries in the world. Situation The estuary of the St. Lawrence River is located downstream of the St. Lawrence River and upstream of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. It ...

Toponymy

The toponym "Lac Kénogami" was formalized on December 5, 1968 at the Bank of Place Names of the

Commission de toponymie du Québec The Commission de toponymie du Québec (English: ''Toponymy Commission of Québec'') is the Government of Québec's public body responsible for cataloging, preserving, making official and publicize Québec's place names and their origins according ...

.Commission de toponymie du Québec - Bank of Place Names - Toponym: "Lac Kénogami"
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References

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Geography

Toponymy

See also

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