Lake · Quebec

Caniapiscau Reservoir

527 m1,729 ft

Area: 3,770 km²
Max depth: 50 m
Tonight: 2°CPartly cloudy · Wind 21 km/h SW

Caniapiscau Reservoir is a lake at 527 m above sea level in Quebec, Canada, 3,770 km² in area and 126.6 km long.

All facts

Surface elevation: 527 m
Length: 126.6 km
Shoreline: 7,282.6 km

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Lake

Caniapiscau Reservoir in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

Shoreline: 7,282.6 km

3D map

Caniapiscau Reservoir 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Caniapiscau Reservoir terrain and contours

10 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.

Index contours every 50 mShowing west → east through the centre

Caniapiscau Reservoir elevation profile

West → east through the centre

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Weather

Caniapiscau Reservoir weather

Tonight · Partly cloudy · 2°C (36°F) · Wind 21 km/h SW

Caniapiscau Reservoir forecast for about 527 m.

Tonight2°–21 km/h SW
Sat2°5°–29 km/h SW
Sun0°6°3.9 mm45 km/h W
Mon-4°0°4.0 mm44 km/h W
Tue-4°-2°1.5 mm33 km/h NW
Wed-2°-1°0.4 mm31 km/h W
Thu-1°1°9.6 mm22 km/h SW
Fri-2°0°5.2 mm32 km/h NW
Sat-2°-1°1.6 mm32 km/h W
Sun0°1°14.2 mm23 km/h SE

Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 24, 01:17 UTC.

Slope

Share of the 20 × 20 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mostly gentle: 100% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°

99.9%

Moderate, 15–30°

0.1%

Steep, 30–45°

0.0%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.0%

Steeper than 30°: 0.0% of the 400 km² view
Relief in view: 167 m low point 503 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Water 69.4%Trees 22.2%Grassland 4.7%Moss & lichen 1.6%Wetland 1.1%Shrubland 0.8%

Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.

Where it sits

Where Caniapiscau Reservoir sits

Downloads

Caniapiscau Reservoir downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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Print & wall

JPGCaniapiscau Reservoir satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-09-01.

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GIS & GPS

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Sources

Data sources

Terrain: Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
Imagery: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-09-01)
Land cover: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts: Wikidata (CC0)
Wildlife: iNaturalist community observations, counts only
Forecast: Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
Sources: Wikidata · GeoNames · Wikipedia