Payukosap Lake is a
glacial lake
A glacial lake is a body of water with origins from glacier activity. They are formed when a glacier erodes the land and then melts, filling the depression created by the glacier.
Formation
Near the end of the last glacial period, roughly 10,0 ...
above the confluence of
Holt Lake and
Mistik Creek
The Mistik Creek is a stream in the Hudson Bay drainage basin in the Northern Region of Manitoba, Canada, approximately northeast of Bakers Narrows.
''Mistik'' is a Cree word for 'Tree'.
Description
The remote creek flows through Churchill ...
, approximately northeast of
Bakers Narrows
Bakers Narrows, Manitoba, is a small residential community approximately southeast of Flin Flon on Lake Athapapuskow. There are five subdivisions located near the lakeshore with a total of approximately 150 cottages, many of which are permanent ...
. As a segment of the Mistik Creek, it is part of the
Nelson River watershed, in the
Hudson Bay drainage basin in the
Northern Region of
Manitoba
Manitoba ( ) is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada at the Centre of Canada, longitudinal centre of the country. It is Canada's Population of Canada by province and territory, fifth-most populous province, with a population o ...
, Canada. The surrounding mixed deciduous and coniferous forest is part of the Churchill River Upland portion of the
Midwestern Canadian Shield forests.
The region around the lake consists of rocky parallel ridges with poorly drained areas of
muskeg
Muskeg (Ojibwe: mashkiig; cr, maskīk; french: fondrière de mousse, lit. ''moss bog'') is a peat-forming ecosystem found in several northern climates, most commonly in Arctic and boreal areas. Muskeg is approximately synonymous with bog or ...
and irregular stony shorelines due to intense glaciation.
The lake is situated on the well known "Mistik Creek Loop", a remote canoe route in length which can be paddled in four days.
''Payukosap'' means 'eleven' in
Cree
The Cree ( cr, néhinaw, script=Latn, , etc.; french: link=no, Cri) are a Indigenous peoples of the Americas, North American Indigenous people. They live primarily in Canada, where they form one of the country's largest First Nations in Canada ...
, as all of the fourteen lakes on Mistik Creek are named in numeric order in Cree.
See also
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List of lakes of Manitoba
This is an incomplete list of lakes of Manitoba, a province of Canada.
Larger lake statistics
The total area of a lake includes the area of islands. Lakes lying across provincial boundaries are listed in the province with the greater lake area.
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References
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Lakes of Northern Manitoba
Glacial lakes of Manitoba