Rivière aux Araignées
| Rivière aux Araignées | |
|---|---|
The Araignées river is only accessible by water; you can see it in the middle of the marsh to the east of Lac aux Araignées. | |
| Location | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Quebec |
| Region | Estrie |
| MRC | Le Granit Regional County Municipality |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | Mountain streams on the border of Quebec and Maine (United States) |
| • location | Saint-Augustin-de-Woburn, (MRC) Le Granit Regional County Municipality, Québec |
| • coordinates | 45°23′44″N 70°41′42″W / 45.395419°N 70.694999°W |
| • elevation | 450 metres (1,480 ft) |
| Mouth | Lake Mégantic, Chaudière River |
• location | Frontenac |
• coordinates | 45°27′59″N 70°47′18″W / 45.46639°N 70.788332°W |
• elevation | 391 metres (1,283 ft) |
| Length | 26.6 kilometres (16.5 mi) |
| Basin size | 437.9 kilometres (272.10 mi) |
| Basin features | |
| Progression | Lake Mégantic, Chaudière River, St. Lawrence River |
| River system | St. Lawrence River |
| Tributaries | |
| • left | (upstream) Arnold River, ruisseau Campagna |
| • right | (upstream) rivière des Indiens (lac aux Araignées), ruisseau Meads, Branche Est, ruisseau des Cascades |
The rivière aux Araignées (in English: Spider River) is a tributary on the south shore of Lake Mégantic whose outfall is the Chaudière River which flows northward to flow into the south shore of the St. Lawrence River.
The Araignées River flows in the municipalities of Saint-Augustin-de-Woburn and Frontenac, in the Le Granit Regional County Municipality (MRC), in the administrative region of Estrie, in Quebec in Canada.