Kakinagimak Lake
Kakinagimak Lake is a bifurcating lake in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The northern part of the lake drains north into the Churchill River drainage basin while the southern part drains into the Wildnest–Sturgeon-Weir River system. The Sturgeon-Weir River is a tributary of the Saskatchewan River. The lake lies in low-relief forested terrain of the Canadian Shield. The climate is sub-arctic.
Kakinagimak Lake is about north-west of Flin Flon, Manitoba and east of Pelican Narrows, Saskatchewan. There is a fly-in fishing lodge on the lake.
Description
Kakinagimak Lake is long, following north-south geological structures, but is narrow like a river. The lake surface is about above sea level. It has an average depth of and a maximum depth of The shoreline measures about long.The northern part of Kakinagimak Lake drains northward into the Churchill River via Nemei Lake, Tocher Lake, and the Nemei River. The southern part of Kakinagimak Lake drains south into the Wildnest–Sturgeon-Weir River system, then into the Saskatchewan River.
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.
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.