Rivière du Sault aux Cochons
| Rivière du Sault aux Cochons | |
|---|---|
Rivière du Sault aux Cochons vue de l'aval du pont de la route 138 à Forestville. | |
| Location | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Quebec |
| Region | Côte-Nord |
| RCM | Minganie |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • elevation | 244 metres (801 ft) |
| 2nd source | Lake Breault |
| • coordinates | 49°16′25″N 69°57′31″E / 49.27361°N 69.95861°E |
| • elevation | 90 metres (300 ft) |
| Mouth | Gulf of Saint Lawrence |
• location | Forestville |
• coordinates | 48°44′04″N 69°03′55″W / 48.73444°N 69.06528°W |
• elevation | 0 metres (0 ft) |
| Length | 128 kilometres (80 mi) |
| Basin size | 1,946 square kilometres (751 sq mi) |
| Discharge | |
| • location | Mouth |
| • average | 3.8 cubic metres per second (130 cu ft/s) |
| • minimum | 0.8 cubic metres per second (28 cu ft/s) |
| • maximum | 9.2 cubic metres per second (320 cu ft/s) |
| Basin features | |
| Tributaries | |
| • left | (upstream) Tardif stream, Sirois stream, Dassylua stream, Limite stream, Jean-Raymond stream, Lac de la Tour outlet, Lac à Pitou outlet, Nazaire stream, Rivière à la Dame, Butler stream, Nicette River, ruisseau à Truchon, discharge from Lac de la Montagne, discharge from Lac des Enfers, discharge from Lac Grillade, Isidore River, discharge from Les Quatre Lacs, Alphabet stream, discharge from Lake Zéphirin, discharge of a set of lakes (including Lac de la Montagne), rivière aux Canards (rivière du Sault aux Cochons), discharge of Lac Labori. |
| • right | (upstream) discharge from Lac L'Allemand, discharge from Lac des Cyprès, discharge from Lac Primas, Boulay brook, Cymac brook, Grosse Roche brook, Adèle brook, Viens brook, Jumeaux brook, Savard brook, Brise-Culotte brook, Les Huit Lacs, Lac Savage outlet, Lac du Castor outlet, Lac Sally outlet, Bouleaux stream, Lake Turcot outlet, Lac de la Tour outlet, La Loche River (rivière du Sault aux Cochons), discharge from Lac Painchaud, discharge from Lac des Caribous. |
The Sault aux Cochons River (French: rivière du Sault aux Cochons, pronounced [ʁivjɛʁ dy sot‿o kɔʃɔ̃]) flows south, on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River, in the La Haute-Côte-Nord Regional County Municipality in the administrative region of Côte-Nord, in Quebec, in Canada. This watercourse successively crosses the townships of Amos, Le Baillif, Bayfield and Miller. It also crosses the zec de Forestville, then flows into the estuary of Saint Lawrence at Forestville.