The Pika Lake is a fresh

body of water A body of water or waterbody (often spelled water body) is any significant accumulation of water on the surface of Earth or another planet. The term most often refers to oceans, seas, and lakes, but it includes smaller pools of water such as p ...

constituting the main head lake of the

Pika River The Rivière Pika is a freshwater tributary of the Pikauba River, flowing in the administrative region of Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, in the province of Quebec, in Canada. This watercourse successively crosses the regional county municipalities ...

on the watershed of 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 ...

. Lac Pika is located in the unorganized territory of Lac-Achouakan, in the

Lac-Saint-Jean-Est Regional County Municipality Lac-Saint-Jean-Est is a regional county municipality in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada. The seat is Alma. In 2016, 99.3% reported that they spoke French most often at home, according to the census. Subdivisions There are 1 ...

, in the administrative region of 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 ...

, in the

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, in

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. This lake is located in 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 ...

. This small valley is served indirectly by the route 169 and some secondary roads for the needs of forestry, recreational tourism activities.Open Street Map - Accessed January 31, 2019
/ref> Forestry is the main economic activity in the sector; recreational tourism, second. The surface of Lake Pika 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

The main watersheds near Lake Pika are: * north side:

, Riendeau Lake, Scott Lake, Clarence-Gagnon Lake,

Pikauba River The Pikauba River is a tributary of Kenogami Lake, flowing in the province of Quebec in Canada, in the administrative regions of: * Capitale-Nationale: in the unorganized territory of Lac-Pikauba, in the Charlevoix Regional County Municipality; * ...

; * east side:

Hocquart Lake The lac Hocquart is a freshwater body crossed by the Pika River on the watershed of the Pikauba River and the Saguenay River. Lac Hocquart is located in the unorganized territory of Lac-Achouakan, in the Lac-Saint-Jean-Est Regional County Municip ...

, Gobeil stream, Gobeil lake,

Rivière aux Canots Est The Rivière aux Canots Est is a tributary of the Rivière aux Canots (rivière aux Écorces), Rivière aux Canots, flowing in the unorganized territories of Lac-Achouakan, Quebec, Lac-Achouakan and Lac-Moncouche, Quebec, Lac-Moncouche, the Lac-Sa ...

; * south side: Riffon lake, Panache lake, rivière aux Canots, Girard stream; * west side: Neptune lake, Cadieux lake, Audubon lake, Raquette stream, Écluse stream, Sancto stream, rivière aux Écorces. Lake Pika has a length of in the shape of an inverted V, a width of and an altitude of . This lake is narrowing due to a peninsula attached to the southwest shore. This lake is mainly fed by the outlet of Lake Audubon (coming from the northwest), the outlet (coming from the West) of Lakes Pluto, Neptune de l'Arsin and Ravine, as well as the outlet of Lake Riffon ( coming from the south). The mouth of this lake is located at: * west of

(formerly known as "Petit lac Pika"); * north-west of Lac du Panache (slope of the Rivière aux Canots); * southeast of Lac Morin; * north-west of the confluence of the Rivière aux Canots and

; * south-west of route 169; * south of the confluence of the Pika river and the

; * east of Rivière aux Écorces. From the mouth of Lake Pika, the current follows the course of the

on consecutively, the course of the

on north to the confluence with

Kenogami Lake Kenogami lake is a long lake in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region of south-central Quebec, Canada. Situated at an altitude of , the lake is long and deep. "Kénogami" means "long lake" in the Montagnais dialect and was originally used to ref ...

; it crosses this lake for north-east until dam of Portage-des-Roches; it follows the course of the

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 ...

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

on east 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 Pika" was formalized on December 5, 1968, by 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 ...

Notes and references

Appendices

* Lac-Achouakan, a TNO *

List of lakes in Canada This is a partial list of lakes of Canada. Canada has an extremely large number of lakes, with the number of lakes larger than three square kilometres being estimated at close to 31,752 by the Atlas of Canada. Of these, 561 lakes have a surface ar ...

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pika, lake Rivers of Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean Regional county municipalities in Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean Laurentides Wildlife Reserve

Geography

Toponymy

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