Rivers of the Northwest Territories: Back River, MacKenzie River, Hornaday River, Liard River, South Nahanni River, Great Bear River

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Anderson River (Northwest Territories), Arctic Red River, Back River, Coppermine River, Ekalluk River, Great Bear River, Hay River (Canada), Hornaday River, Horn River, Horton River (Canada), Kagloryuak River, Kakisa River, Keele River, Kendall River, Kotaneelee River, Liard River, List of rivers of the Northwest Territories, Mackenzie River, Mountain River, Nanook River, North Nahanni River, Peel River (Canada), Petitot River, Redknife River, Redstone River, Roscoe River, Slave River, South Nahanni River, Taltson River, Thelon River, Thomsen River, Tree River, Trout River (Northwest Territories), Tsintu River, Whitefish River (Northwest Territories), Yellowknife River. Excerpt: Mackenzie River - a: lang(ar), a: lang(ckb), a: lang(fa), a: lang(kk-arab), a: lang(mzn), a: lang(ps), a: lang(ur)/* cache key: enwiki: resourceloader: filter: minify-css:7: d11e4771671c2d6cdedf7c90d8131cd5 */ Satellite view of the lower Mackenzie RiverThrough its many tributaries, the Mackenzie River basin covers portions of five Canadian provinces and territories - British Columbia (BC), Alberta, Saskatchewan, and the Yukon and Northwest Territories. The two largest headwaters forks, the Peace and Athabasca Rivers, drain much of the central Alberta prairie and the Rocky Mountains in northern BC then combine into the Slave River at the Peace-Athabasca Delta near Lake Athabasca, which also receives runoff from northwestern Saskatchewan. The Slave is the primary feeder of Great Slave Lake (contributing about 77% of the water); other inflows include the Taltson, Lockhart and Hay Rivers, the latter of which also extends into Alberta and BC. Direct tributaries of the Mackenzie from the west such as the Liard and Peel Rivers carry runoff from the mountains of the eastern Yukon. The eastern portion of the Mackenzie basin is dominated by vast reaches of lake-studded boreal forest and includes many of the largest lakes in North America. By both volume and surface area, Great Bear Lake is the biggest in the watershed and third largest on the continent, with a surface area of 31,153 km (12,028 sq mi) and a volume of 2,236 km (536 cu mi). Great Slave Lake is slightly smaller, with an area of 28,568 km (11,030 sq mi) and containing 2,088 km (501 cu mi) of water, although it is significantly deeper than Great Bear. The third major lake, Athabasca, is less than a third that size with an area of 7,800 km (3,000 sq mi). Six other lakes in the watershed cover more than 1,000 km (390 sq mi), including the Williston Lake reservoir, the second-largest artificial lake in North America, on the Peace River. With an average annual flow of 9,910 m/s (350,000 cu ft/s), the Mackenzie River ha