Official Name: | Colinet |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Pushpin Map: | Newfoundland |
Pushpin Label Position: | left |
Area Land Km2: | 6.24 |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population Total: | 103 |
Population Density Km2: | 12.8 |
Utc Offset: | -3:30 |
Utc Offset Dst: | -2:30 |
Coordinates: | 47.2194°N -53.5481°W |
Elevation M: | 12 |
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Colinet is an incorporated town located on the northwest arm of St. Mary's Bay in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Colinet is notable for two rivers, the Rocky and the Colinet, which enter the sea in or near the town.
The Rocky River has a man-made salmon ladder spanning the waterfalls at its mouth. Originally not a salmon river because of those falls, the river was seeded with salmon fry in the mid-1980s. The salmon began using the man-made ladder to bypass the falls in 1987. In 2002, the river opened to recreational anglers, making it Atlantic Canada's newest salmon river.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Colinet had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of .[1] With a land area of 6.01km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[2]