Shuswap Lake
lake50.983, -119.017
Shuswap Lake offers recreational fishing.
Don't leave without...
- recreational fishing
Overview
A lake located in the southern interior of British Columbia, Canada, known for its recreational lakeshore communities and connection to various rivers and creeks.
Quick Facts
- Type
- lake
- Coordinates
- 50.9830, -119.0170
Good to know
- Getting there & parking
Southern Interior region of British Columbia
More details
- Pronunciation
- SHOOSH-wahp
- Drains via
- Little River into Little Shuswap Lake
- Source of
- South Thompson River
- Region
- Columbia Shuswap or 'the Shuswap'
- Named after
- Shuswap or Secwepemc First Nations people
- Boundary
- Shuswap Highland and the Monashee Range
- Arms
- Salmon Arm, Shuswap Arm or Main Arm, Anstey Arm, Seymour Arm
- Connection to Little Shuswap Lake
- via the Little River
- Fed by
- Adams River, Salmon River, Eagle River, Seymour River, Scotch Creek
- Geological basins
- Shuswap/Seymour, Anstey/Salmon Arm
- Metamorphic bedrock
- Shuswap terrane
- Glacial history
- Part of Glacial Lake Kamloops
- Elevation
- 347 metres (1,138 ft) above sea level
- Surface area
- 310 square kilometres (120 sq mi)
- Perimeter
- 342 kilometres (213 mi)
- Mean depth
- 62 metres (203 ft)
- Maximum depth
- 171 metres (561 ft) in Seymour Arm
- Cinnemosun Narrows depth
- 5 metres (16 ft)
- Average volume
- 19 cubic kilometres (4.6 cu mi)
- Water retention time
- 2.1 years
- Number of inflows
- 34 permanent streams and rivers
- Largest inflows
- Shuswap River, Adams River, Seymour River
- Watershed area
- 17,478 square kilometres (6,748 sq mi)
- Single outflow
- Little River
- Water quality
- Generally clear and cold, oligotrophic
- Lake level variation
- 3-metre (9.8 ft) difference between lowest and highest levels
- Thermal stratification
- Summer months
- Fish species
- 30 species, including Chinook salmon, Coho salmon, Sockeye salmon, Rainbow trout, Lake trout, Burbot
- Invasive fish
- Carp
- Invasive species
- Eurasian water milfoil
- Lake monster legend
- Shuswap Lake Monster, 'Shugumu', or 'Shuswaggi'