Yamaska South East River | |
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Native name | Rivière Yamaska Sud-Est (French) |
Location | |
Country | Canada |
Province | Quebec |
Administrative region | Montérégie |
MRC | Brome-Missisquoi Regional County Municipality |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | Various agricultural streams |
• location | Sutton |
• coordinates | 45°06′54″N 72°31′51″W / 45.11501°N 72.530814°W / 45.11501; -72.530814 |
• elevation | 494 |
Mouth | Yamaska River |
• location | Farnham |
• coordinates | 45°17′11″N 72°55′01″W / 45.28639°N 72.91695°W / 45.28639; -72.91695 |
• elevation | 61 m |
Length | 55.4 km (34.4 mi) |
Basin size | 303 km2 (117 sq mi) |
Basin features | |
River system | Saint Lawrence River |
Tributaries | |
• left | (upstream) cours d'eau Césaire-Mercure, cours d'eau Beauvais, cours d'eau Allen, ruisseau Pettes, ruisseau de Jackson. |
• right | (upstream) cours d'eau Benjamin, ruisseau Alder, ruisseau Draper. |
The Yamaska Southeast river is a tributary of the Yamaska River. It flows in the Brome-Missisquoi Regional County Municipality (MRC), in the administrative region of Montérégie, on the South Shore of the Saint Lawrence River, in Quebec, Canada. Its course to the northwest crosses the municipalities of: Sutton, Cowansville, Brigham and Farnham.
The main neighboring hydrographic slopes of the Yamaska Southeast River are:
The Yamaska Southeast river takes its sources from several streams draining the northern slope of Mont Sutton, north of Sutton and south of Brome Lake. Its main tributary is the Jackson stream (coming from the northeast) which receives water from:
Upper course of the river (segment of 26.6 kilometres (16.5 mi))
From the confluence of two mountain streams on the western flank of the Gagnon and Écho mountains, the Yamaska Southeast river flows over:
Course downstream of Davignon Lake (segment of 28.8 kilometres (17.9 mi))
From Davignon Lake, the Yamaska Southeast river flows over:
The Yamaska Southeast river empties on the south shore of the Yamaska River at 7.0 kilometres (4.3 mi) upstream of the bridge of route 235ofFarnham and 13.5 kilometres (8.4 mi) downstream of the Adamsville highway bridge.[1]
The toponym『Rivière Yamaska Sud-Est』was officially registered on December 5, 1968, in the Bank of place names of the Commission de toponymie du Québec.[2]