| Rivière des Trois Pointes | |
| Subdivision Type1: | Country |
| Subdivision Name1: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type2: | Province |
| Subdivision Name2: | Quebec |
| Subdivision Type3: | Region |
| Subdivision Name3: | Côte-Nord |
| Subdivision Type4: | MRC |
| Subdivision Name4: | Manicouagan Regional County Municipality |
| Subdivision Type5: | Unorganized territory |
| Subdivision Name5: | Rivière-aux-Outardes |
| Length: | 11.9km (07.4miles) |
| Source1: | Marois lake |
| Source1 Location: | Rivière-aux-Outardes |
| Source1 Coordinates: | 49.4231°N -68.2047°W |
| Source1 Elevation: | 258m (846feet) |
| Mouth: | Rivière aux Anglais |
| Mouth Location: | Rivière-aux-Outardes |
| Mouth Coordinates: | 49.5097°N -68.2353°W |
| Mouth Elevation: | 63m (207feet) |
| Progression: | Rivière aux Anglais, Baie des Anglais |
| Tributaries Left: | (upstream) discharge from a stream (via Lac des Trois Pointes), discharge from a lake, discharge from Lac du Serpent, two discharge from lakes (via Lake Picard), discharge from Lake Pat (via Lake Picard), discharge from Ladoga lake. |
| Tributaries Right: | (upstream) discharge from a stream (via Lac des Trois Pointes), discharge from a set of lakes (via Lac des Chutes), discharge from two lakes. |
The Rivière des Trois Pointes is a tributary of the rivière aux Anglais flowing in the unorganized territory Rivière-aux-Outardes, in the Manicouagan Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Côte-Nord, in the province of Quebec, in Canada.
The Trois Pointes river valley is mainly served by the English river path.[1]
The surface of the Trois Pointes river is generally frozen from the beginning of December to the end of March, except the rapids areas; however, safe circulation on the ice is generally from mid-December to mid-March.
The Trois Pointes river originates on the Canadian Shield, at a small unidentified lake (length: ; altitude:). The mouth (south side) of this small forest lake is located northeast of the confluence of the Françoise river and the rivière aux Anglais, at south-west of a bay in Lake Franquelin and north-west of the confluence of the rivière aux Anglais and Baie des Anglais on the north shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
From the head lake, the course of the Trois Pointes river descends on entirely in the forest zone, with a drop of, according to the following segments:
The Trois Pointes river flows on the north bank of the Lac La Chesnaye, which is crossed to the northeast by the current of the rivière aux Anglais, in the unorganized territory of Rivière-aux-Outardes. This confluence is located from the mouth of Lac La Chesnaye, because the current must go around a peninsula stretching on to the south. From the mouth of Lac La Chesnaye, the current descends the course of the English River for to the Baie des Anglais, located on the north shore of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.[2]
The place names "Rivière des Trois Pointes" and "Lac des Trois Pointes" originate from the fact that this lake has three bays, each ending in a point.
The toponym "Trois Pointes River" was formalized on August 2, 1974, at the Place Names Bank of the Commission de toponymie du Québec.[3]