The Kesagami River is a river in northern
Cochrane District in
Northeastern
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Ontario
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, Canada.
It is part of the
James Bay
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drainage basin
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, and is a
left tributary
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of the
Harricana River. The lower two-thirds of the river, from about
Kesagami Lake and downstream for , are part of Kesagami Provincial Park.
The river begins at an unnamed lake in the Abitibi Uplands
just west of
Ontario Highway 652 and flows north to the large Kesagami Lake. It exits the lake at the northeast, continues north and descends rapidly to the James Bay Lowlands,
where it takes in several tributaries before reaching its mouth at the Harricana River, just upstream of that river's mouth at James Bay.
From Kesagami Lake downstream, the river can be traversed as a canoe route.
Tributaries
*Shonaniwau Creek (left)
*Kapichilewau Creek (left)
*
Lawagamau River (right)
*Kwastigam Creek (left)
*Kachigaskotik Creek (left)
*
Seal River (right)
*Little Seal River (right)
*
Shashiskau River (right)
*
Bodell River (left)
*Kesagami Lake
**Wikweyau Creek (right)
*
Little Kesagami River (right)
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
Sources
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Rivers of Cochrane District