Piciw Minikanan Bay is a body of freshwater located in the western part of Gouin Reservoir, in the territory of the town of La Tuque, in the administrative area of the Mauricie, in the province of Quebec, in Canada.
Piciw Minikanan Bay | |
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Location | La Tuque |
Coordinates | 48°25′14″N 75°26′43″W |
Type | Lake of dam |
Primary inflows | Outlet of unidentified lake, derivation canal coming from lake of the Poet (Mégiscane River) |
Primary outflows | Adolphe-Poisson Bay (linked to Du Mâle Lake (Gouin Reservoir)) |
Basin countries | Canada |
Max. length | 2.0 kilometres (1.2 mi) |
Max. width | 0.3 kilometres (0.19 mi) |
Surface elevation | 402 metres (1,319 ft) |
This lake extends entirely in the canton of Poisson.
Recreotourism activities are the main economic activity of the sector. Forestry comes second. Recreational boating is particularly popular on this water, especially for sport fishing.
The Piciw Minikanan Bay hydrographic slope is served on the east side by the R1009 forest road (which also serves the entire western side of the Gouin Reservoir and the Berthelot River).
The surface of Piciw Minikanan Bay is usually frozen from mid-November to the end of April, however, safe ice circulation is generally from early December to late March. Water management at the Gouin Dam can lead to significant variations in the water level, particularly at the end of the winter when the water is lowered. The water level of this bay equilibrates with that of the Gouin Reservoir.
The main hydrographic slopes near Piciw Minikanan Bay are:
With a length of 2.0 kilometres (1.2 mi), Piciw Minikanan Bay stretches to the northeast. This bay has a strategic role because it receives the waters of the diversion channel from the Lake of the Poet (Mégiscane River). This canal was designed to divert water from the Suzie River and upper part of Mégiscane River to the Gouin Reservoir which is at the head of the Saint-Maurice River.
“Piciw Minikanan Bay” is bounded on the east by a peninsula stretching northward on 2.3 kilometres (1.4 mi), which forms the west shore of the Adolphe-Poisson Bay. In its Northern part, this bay catches the water (coming from West) of a creek where the "digue de la Baie-Poisson-Sud" was built at 0.7 kilometres (0.43 mi) upstream.
The mouth of Piciw Minikanan Bay is located northeast of the lake at:
From the mouth of “Piciw Minikanan Bay”, the current flows over 124.7 kilometres (77.5 mi) to Gouin Dam, according to the following segments:
"Piciw Minikanan" is of aboriginal origin.
The French toponym "Baie Piciw Minikanan" was formalized on September 3, 1981, by the Commission de toponymie du Québec.[2]
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