List of Saskatchewan rivers
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Principal river statistics

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Saskatchewan's principal rivers and their tributaries
Flowing into Hudson Bay and Hudson Strait
River Drainage area (km²) Length (km)
North Saskatchewan
North Saskatchewan River
The North Saskatchewan River is a glacier-fed river that flows east from the Canadian Rockies to central Saskatchewan. It is one of two major rivers that join to make up the Saskatchewan River....

12,800 1,287
South Saskatchewan
South Saskatchewan River
The South Saskatchewan River is a major river in Canada that flows through the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan....

 (to head of Bow)
1144,300 1,392
Churchill
Churchill River (Hudson Bay)
The Churchill River is a major river in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, Canada. From the head of the Churchill Lake it is 1,609 km long. It was named after John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough and governor of the Hudson's Bay Company from 1685 to 1691...

 (to head of Churchill Lake)
281,300 1,609
Beaver
Beaver River (Canada)
Beaver River is a large river in east-central Alberta and central Saskatchewan, Canada.Beaver River has a catchment area of 14,500 km2 in Alberta, where it drains the lake system in Lac La Biche County...

 (to outlet of Beaver Lake)
4,700 336


Source Statistics Canada

Note for additions: please remember to add the city where the river meets for each river.

Rivers

  • Arctic Ocean
    Arctic Ocean
    The Arctic Ocean, located in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Arctic north polar region, is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceanic divisions...

     watershed
    Drainage basin
    A drainage basin is an extent or an area of land where surface water from rain and melting snow or ice converges to a single point, usually the exit of the basin, where the waters join another waterbody, such as a river, lake, reservoir, estuary, wetland, sea, or ocean...

    • Fond du Lac River
      Fond du Lac River (Mackenzie River)
      The Fond du Lac River is one of the upper branches of the Mackenzie River system, draining into the Arctic Ocean, located in northern Saskatchewan, Canada. The river is long, has a watershed of , and its mean discharge is per second.-Hydrology:...

      • Cree River
        • Pipestone River
        • Rapid River
    • Clearwater River
      Clearwater River (Saskatchewan)
      Clearwater River is the name of a river in the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta.-Course:The Clearwater River totals 295 kilometres in length and rises in northwestern Saskatchewan in the northern forest region of the Precambrian Shield. From its headwaters at Broach Lake it flows...

  • Hudson Bay
    Hudson Bay
    Hudson Bay , sometimes called Hudson's Bay, is a large body of saltwater in northeastern Canada. It drains a very large area, about , that includes parts of Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Alberta, most of Manitoba, southeastern Nunavut, as well as parts of North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota,...

     watershed
    Drainage basin
    A drainage basin is an extent or an area of land where surface water from rain and melting snow or ice converges to a single point, usually the exit of the basin, where the waters join another waterbody, such as a river, lake, reservoir, estuary, wetland, sea, or ocean...

    • Assiniboine River
      Assiniboine River
      The Assiniboine River is a river that runs through the prairies of Western Canada in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. It is a tributary of the Red River. The Assiniboine is a typical meandering river with a single main channel embanked within a flat, shallow valley in some places and a steep valley in...


      • Qu'Appelle River
        Qu'Appelle River
        The Qu'Appelle River is a Canadian river that flows 430 km east from Lake Diefenbaker in southwestern Saskatchewan to join the Assiniboine River in Manitoba, just south of Lake of the Prairies, near the village of St. Lazare....

      • Souris River
        Souris River
        The Souris River or Mouse River is a river in central North America. It is about 700 km in length and drains about . It rises in the Yellow Grass Marshes north of Weyburn, Saskatchewan...

    • Churchill River
      Churchill River (Hudson Bay)
      The Churchill River is a major river in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, Canada. From the head of the Churchill Lake it is 1,609 km long. It was named after John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough and governor of the Hudson's Bay Company from 1685 to 1691...


      • Beaver River
        Beaver River (Canada)
        Beaver River is a large river in east-central Alberta and central Saskatchewan, Canada.Beaver River has a catchment area of 14,500 km2 in Alberta, where it drains the lake system in Lac La Biche County...

    • Saskatchewan River
      Saskatchewan River
      The Saskatchewan River is a major river in Canada, approximately long, flowing roughly eastward across Saskatchewan and Manitoba to empty into Lake Winnipeg...


      • Carrot River
        Carrot River
        The Carrot River is a river in northeastern Saskatchewan, and northwestern Manitoba. The river begins at Waterhen Marsh located south of Kinistino, Saskatchewan and continues through northeast Saskatchewan until it empties into the Saskatchewan River north-west of The Pas, Manitoba.The Carrot...

      • North Saskatchewan River
        North Saskatchewan River
        The North Saskatchewan River is a glacier-fed river that flows east from the Canadian Rockies to central Saskatchewan. It is one of two major rivers that join to make up the Saskatchewan River....

        • Battle River
        • Little Red River (Saskatchewan)
        • Shell River (Saskatchewan)
        • Spruce River (Saskatchewan)
        • Sturgeon River (Saskatchewan)
          Sturgeon River (Saskatchewan)
          The Sturgeon River is a river in the Hudson Bay drainage basin in the census divisions No. 15 and No. 16, Saskatchewan, Canada. It flows from its source in Prince Albert National Park to the North Saskatchewan River just west of Prince Albert.-Course:...

      • South Saskatchewan River
        South Saskatchewan River
        The South Saskatchewan River is a major river in Canada that flows through the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan....


        • Red Deer River
          Red Deer River
          The Red Deer River is a river in Alberta, Canada. It is a major tributary of the South Saskatchewan River.Red Deer River has a total length of and a drainage area of...

    • Arm River
    • Birch River
    • McDougal River
    • Montreal River
      Montreal River (Saskatchewan)
      The Montreal River is a river in Census Division No. 18, Saskatchewan, Canada. It flows from Montreal Lake to Lac la Ronge, and is part of the Churchill River and Hudson Bay drainage basins.-Course:...

    • Moose Jaw River
    • Scarth River
    • Torch River
    • Wood River

  • Gulf of Mexico
    Gulf of Mexico
    The Gulf of Mexico is a partially landlocked ocean basin largely surrounded by the North American continent and the island of Cuba. It is bounded on the northeast, north and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States, on the southwest and south by Mexico, and on the southeast by Cuba. In...

     watershed
    Drainage basin
    A drainage basin is an extent or an area of land where surface water from rain and melting snow or ice converges to a single point, usually the exit of the basin, where the waters join another waterbody, such as a river, lake, reservoir, estuary, wetland, sea, or ocean...

    • Poplar River
      Poplar River (Saskatchewan-Montana)
      The Poplar River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 167 mi long in Saskatchewan in Canada and Montana in the United States....

    • Frenchman River
      Frenchman River
      Frenchman River, or Frenchman Creek, is a river in Saskatchewan, Canada and Montana, United States. It is a tributary of the Milk River, itself a tributary of the Missouri.The river is approximately long....


Creeks

  • Avonlea Creek
  • Big Muddy Creek (Missouri River)
  • Battle Creek (Milk River)
    Battle Creek (Milk River)
    Battle Creek is a stream that begins in southeastern Alberta along the border with Saskatchewan, in the Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park.It flows into the Milk River in Blaine County, Montana...

  • Cut Knife Creek
  • Eaglehill Creek
  • Fish Creek, Saskatchewan
    Fish Creek, Saskatchewan
    Fish Creek is a tributary of the South Saskatchewan River in Saskatchewan, Canada, northeast of Saskatoon.It is most famous as the site of the Battle of Fish Creek during the Northwest Rebellion of 1885 between General Frederick Middleton of the Canadian Militia and Gabriel Dumont, adjutant general...

  • Gainsborough Creek
    Gainsborough Creek
    Gainsborough Creek is a tributary of the Souris River in southeastern Saskatchewan and southwestern Manitoba.Communities on or near the waterway are Gainsborough, Saskatchewan and Pierson, Manitoba.-References:**...

  • McEachern Creek
  • Pipestone Creek
  • Poplar Creek (Weyburn
    Weyburn, Saskatchewan
    Weyburn is a city in southeastern Saskatchewan, Canada. It is located on the Souris River southeast of the provincial capital of Regina and is north of the border with the United States. The name is reputedly a corruption of the Scottish "wee burn," referring to a small creek. The city is...

    )
  • Thunder Creek
  • Wascana Creek
    Wascana Creek
    Wascana Creek originates in the fields east of Regina, Saskatchewan near Vibank, Saskatchewan and travels southeast for approximately 45 kilometers before turning back west at Tyvan, Saskatchewan. The creek then travels in a northwestwardly direction through Regina...

     (Regina
    Regina, Saskatchewan
    Regina is the capital city of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The city is the second-largest in the province and a cultural and commercial centre for southern Saskatchewan. It is governed by Regina City Council. Regina is the cathedral city of the Roman Catholic and Romanian Orthodox...

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See also

  • List of lakes in Saskatchewan
  • Geography of Saskatchewan
    Geography of Saskatchewan
    The geography of Saskatchewan , is unique among the provinces and territories of Canada in some respects. It is one of only two landlocked regions and it is the only region whose borders are not based on natural features like lakes, rivers or drainage divides...

  • Rivers of Canada
  • Rivers of the Americas
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