{"id":24939,"date":"2024-07-11T05:39:19","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T00:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=24939"},"modified":"2025-04-07T14:18:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T08:48:45","slug":"mackenzie-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mackenzie-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts about Mackenzie River"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Mackenzie River:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Mackenzie River system is the <strong>second largest river system on<\/strong> the <strong>North American<\/strong> continent, <strong>after<\/strong> only the <strong>Mississippi-Missouri River system<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is also <strong>Canada\u2019s largest and longest river basin<\/strong> and is the <strong>10th largest river basin<\/strong> in the world.<\/li>\n<li>The Mackenzie <strong>River system<\/strong> flows along a <strong>course of 4,241 kilometers<\/strong> from its <strong>headwaters in<\/strong> the <strong>Finlay River<\/strong> to its <strong>drainage into<\/strong> the <strong>Beaufort Sea in the Arctic Ocean<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The Mackenzie itself is 1,025 miles (1,650 km) long. The river is <strong>generally wide<\/strong>, mostly from 1 to 2 miles (1.6 to 3.2 km) across, and in island-dotted sections, 3 to 4 miles (4.8 to 6.4 km) wide.<\/li>\n<li>The Mackenzie and its tributaries together <strong>drain an area of<\/strong> about <strong>1.8 million sq.km<\/strong>, which represents about 20% of Canada\u2019s total land area.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Its <strong>lake-covered triangular delta<\/strong> measures more than 120 miles (190 km) from north to south and is about 50 miles (80 km) wide <strong>along the Arctic shore.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Peace, Athabasca<\/strong>, and <strong>Liard Rivers<\/strong> are some of the most <strong>important tributaries<\/strong> of the Mackenzie.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A number of <strong>lakes, like<\/strong> the <strong>Lake Athabasca<\/strong>, <strong>Great Slave Lake<\/strong>, and <strong>Great Bear Lake<\/strong>, also form notable parts of the Mackenzie River system.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What are deltas?<\/h3>\n<p>Deltas form as rivers empty their water and sediment into another body of water, such as an ocean, lake, or another river.Although very uncommon, deltas can also empty into land.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesnownews.com\/world\/canada\/mackenzie-river-in-canada-reaches-historic-low-levels-stranding-communities-article-111642625\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mackenzie River in Canada Reaches Historic Low Levels, Stranding Communities<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mackenzie River system is the second largest river system on the North American continent, after only the Mississippi-Missouri River system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24940,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}