Réservoir Taureau
46.7676° N, 73.7984° W
Shoreline and neighbouring water from open government data.
Download the map (SVG)Réservoir Taureau, Quebec. 46.7676° N, 73.7984° W
Not for navigation. Depths are from government surveys and may be outdated.
borealbound.ca/lakes/qc/reservoir-taureau/, compiled October 9, 2026
- Canadian Geographical Names Database, Natural Resources Canada. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.
- HydroLAKES v1.0, Messager et al. 2016 / WWF HydroSHEDS. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Census boundaries and population, 2021, Statistics Canada. Adapted from Statistics Canada. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada.
- Géobase des bathymétries de lac du Québec (GBLQ), Ministère de l’Environnement, de la Lutte contre les changements climatiques, de la Faune et des Parcs. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Source: Ministère de l’Environnement, de la Lutte contre les changements climatiques, de la Faune et des Parcs (MELCCFP), Données Québec.
- États trophiques des lacs (RSVL), Ministère de l’Environnement, de la Lutte contre les changements climatiques, de la Faune et des Parcs. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Source: Ministère de l’Environnement, de la Lutte contre les changements climatiques, de la Faune et des Parcs (MELCCFP), Données Québec.
- City page weather forecasts and alerts, Environment and Climate Change Canada. Contains data from Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC Data Servers End-use Licence).
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Réservoir Taureau covers 94.5 km², making it larger than 99% of the 29,407 lakes in Quebec. It lies beside Saint-Ignace-du-Lac.
- Area
- 94.5 km²
- larger than 99% of the 29,407 lakes in Quebec
- Shoreline
- 305 km
- longer than 99% of the 29,407 lakes in Quebec
- Water clarity
- 1.7 mSecchi depth, 2024
- less clear than 90% of the 805 monitored lakes in Quebec
- Elevation
- 350 m
Today on the water
5.1 °C
Observed at Saint-Michel-des-Saints, as of 3:00 a.m. EDT
choppy Estimated waves, next 12 hours: up to 0.3 m. Around 12 p.m., wind from the west: the west shore is sheltered, waves build toward the east shore.
| Time | 5 a.m. | 8 a.m. | 11 a.m. | 2 p.m. | 5 p.m. | 8 p.m. | 11 p.m. | 2 a.m. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wind km/h | W 10 | W 10 | W 10 | W 20 | W 20 | W 15 | W 10 | W 10 |
| Waves (est.) m | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |||
| Temp. °C | 5 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
| Precip. % | 60 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Tonight: Mainly cloudy with 60 percent chance of showers. Wind west 20 km/h becoming light this evening. Low plus 5.
Weather: Saint-Michel-des-Saints (local forecast), as of 4:05 a.m. EDT
Sun and moon
- Civil dawn
- 6:34 a.m.
- Sunrise
- 7:04 a.m.
- Sunset
- 6:19 p.m.
- Civil dusk
- 6:49 p.m.
- Moonrise
- 5:55 a.m.
- Moonset
- 5:37 p.m.
- Moon
- Waning crescent, 1% lit
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Depth
Not for navigation. Depths are from government surveys and may be outdated.
Water
Trophic status from the latest monitoring: mesotrophic.
Clarity was measured with a Secchi disk in 12 years between 2007 and 2024; the latest annual mean is 1.7 m.
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