Atimokateiw River facts for kids

The surrounding hydrographic slopes of the Atimokateiw River are:

• north side: Gouin Reservoir, Magnan Lake, McSweeney Lake, Wapous River;
• east side: Kikendatch Bay, Payolas Creek, Leblanc River, Saint-Maurice River, Jean-Pierre River;
• south side: West Pichoui River, Bellerive River, Saint-Maurice River, Bazin River, Drouin River;
• west side: Kettle Bay, Chapman Lake, Gouin Reservoir, Leblanc River, Nevers Lake, Five Mile Lake.

The Atimokateiw River originates at the mouth of an unidentified lake (length: 0.8 kilometres (0.50 mi) altitude: 469 metres (1,539 ft)). The mouth of this head lake is located at:

• 6.6 kilometres (4.1 mi) north-east of the mouth of the Atimokateiw River (confluence with a bay of Gouin Reservoir);
• 24.0 kilometres (14.9 mi) west of the dam at the mouth of the Gouin Reservoir (confluence with the Saint-Maurice River);
• 47.9 kilometres (29.8 mi) south-east of the village center of Obedjiwan (located on a peninsula on the north shore of Gouin Reservoir);
• 162.9 kilometres (101.2 mi) north-west of downtown La Tuque.

From the mouth of the head lake, the course of the Atimokateiw River flows over 14.6 kilometres (9.1 mi) according to the following segments:

• 4.8 kilometres (3.0 mi) south to the mouth of a small lake between two mountains;
• 4.9 kilometres (3.0 mi) to the south-east, skirting by the north a mountain whose summit reached 566 metres (1,857 ft) and by the north of a second mountain whose summit reached 530 metres (1,740 ft), to the mouth of a small lake;
• 4.9 kilometres (3.0 mi) northeasterly, forming a curve to the south, to its mouth.

The confluence of the "Atimokateiw River" with the Gouin Reservoir is located at:

• 18.0 kilometres (11.2 mi) west of Gouin Dam;
• 54.5 kilometres (33.9 mi) south-east of the village center of Obedjiwan, Quebec;
• 66.7 kilometres (41.4 mi) north-west of the village center of Wemotaci, Quebec;
• 155.7 kilometres (96.7 mi) north-west of downtown La Tuque;
• 262 kilometres (163 mi) northwest of the mouth of the Saint-Maurice River (confluence with the St. Lawrence River at Trois-Rivières).

The Atimokateiw River flows south of a bay stretching northward 2.9 kilometres (1.8 mi), which is an extension to the east of the Gouin Reservoir; this bay is barred on the east side by a peninsula stretching northward on 1.6 kilometres (0.99 mi). From the mouth of this bay, the current flows eastward on 18.6 kilometres (11.6 mi) across the Kikendatch Bay to the Gouin Dam. From

there, the current flows along the Saint-Maurice River to Trois-Rivières, where it flows on the North Shore of the St. Lawrence River.