Kakinagimak Lake


Kakinagimak Lake is a lake in Saskatchewan, Canada. It lies in low-relief forested terrain of the Canadian Shield. The climate is sub-arctic.

Location

Kakinagimak Lake is at.
It is about worthwest of Flin Flon, Manitoba, and east of Pelican Narrows, Saskatchewan.
The lake is long, following north-south geological structures, but is narrow like a river.
The lake surface is about above sea level.
There is a fishing cabin on the lake.

Terrain

The lake has an average depth of and a maximum depth of.
It has of shoreline.
Granitoid ridges near the lake rise to about above sea level.
Most of the region is underlain by granodiorite to tonalite gneisses, which are exposed on the shores of the central portion of the lake.
Robbestad Lake, McArthur Lake and the northern part of Kakinagimak Lake drain northward into the Churchill River via the Nemei River.
The southern part of Kakinagimak Lake drains south into the Wildnest-Sturgeon-Weir River System, then into the Saskatchewan River.

Environment

The lake is in the subarctic climate zone.
The annual average temperature is.
The warmest month is July, when the average temperature is and the coldest is January, with.
The lake is surrounded by coniferous forest.
The lake is home to northern pike, walleye and lake trout.
The water is clear.