Slave
Slave is a mapped river in the YearMaps hydrographic index. River courses organise settlement, agriculture and frontier-making more durably than any political boundary, and this reach is indexed against the dams, lakes and cities within its catchment.
- Feature Class
- River
- Coordinates
- 60.32°, -112.53°
About Slave
The Slave River is a Canadian river that flows from the confluence of the Rivière des Rochers and Peace River in northeastern Alberta and runs into Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories. The river's name is thought to derive from the name for the Slavey group of the Dene First Nations, Deh Gah Gotʼine, in the Athabaskan languages. The Chipewyan had displaced other native people from this region.
Encyclopedic summary adapted from Wikipedia: Slave River (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Slave in Depth
Course
The Slave River originates in the Peace-Athabasca Delta, at the forks of Peace River and Rivière des Rochers, which drains the Athabasca River and Lake Athabasca. The Slave River flows north into the Northwest Territories and into the Great Slave Lake north of Fort Resolution. From there the water reaches the Arctic Ocean through the Mackenzie River.
The river is 434 kilometres (270 mi) long and has a cumulative drainage area of 616,400 square kilometres (238,000 mi2).
Sections adapted from Wikipedia: Slave River (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Major River Dossiers
Hand-written studies of the great river systems of history.
Connected Reaches
Nearby watercourses in the same drainage network.
Water Bodies in the Catchment
Settlements Along the Reach
Hydraulic Infrastructure Nearby
Surrounding Terrain
Slave: Quick Answers
- Where is Slave?
- Slave is located in Canada, at 60.3245° N, 112.5283° W.
- Are there dams on the Slave?
- No dam on the Slave is recorded in the YearMaps dam index, which covers major structures only.