The Waconichi River is a tributary of the
Mistassini Lake, flowing into the
Regional County Municipality
The term regional county municipality or RCM (''french: municipalité régionale de comté, MRC'') is used in Quebec, Canada to refer to one of 87 county-like political entities. In some older English translations they were called county r ...
(MRC) of
Eeyou Istchee Baie-James, in
Jamésie
Jamésie is a territory equivalent to a regional county municipality (TE) of Nord-du-Québec, Canada.
Its geographical code is 991 and together with Kativik TE and Eeyou Istchee TE it forms the administrative région and census division (CD ...
, in the administrative region of
Nord-du-Québec, in the
province of
Quebec, in
Canada.
The course of the river flows entirely in O'Sullivan Township and in
Albanel, Mistassini and Waconichi Lakes Wildlife Sanctuary.
The hydrographic slope of the river is served by
route 167, which is going north along the right shore of the
Waconichi Lake
Waconichi Lake is a freshwater body of the Albanel, Mistassini and Waconichi Lakes Wildlife Sanctuary within the Eeyou Istchee Baie-James, in Jamésie, in the administrative region of Nord-du-Québec, in the province of Quebec, in Canada. The su ...
and the river of the same name.
The surface of the "Waconichi River" is usually frozen from early November to mid-May; however, safe ice circulation is generally from mid-November to mid-April.
Geography
Toponymy
Of Cree origin, this hydronym means: "the river of the mountain of the tripe of rock (polypode of Virginia)".
The name "Waconichi River" was officialized on July 10, 1969 at 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 ...
.
References
See also
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Rivers of Nord-du-Québec
Eeyou Istchee James Bay