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Rivers

National Hydro Network (Canada)

NHN, GeoBase series. Canada's inland surface waters at 1:50,000 or better.

Watercourses, lakes, canals and a linear drainage network with names, built from the best federal and provincial data. Packaged by work unit; index files on the download server show which unit covers an area.

Source
Natural Resources Canada
Resolution
1:50,000 or better
Data type
Lines and polygons
Time span
Updated by drainage area
Temporal
Static
Access type
Direct download (external)
Formats
Shapefile, File geodatabase, GeoPackage, GML, KML
Coverage
Canada (-141, 41.70, -52.60, 83.10)
Licence
Open Government Licence (Canada)
Provider page
open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/a4b190fe-e090-4e6d-881e-b879…

Access

curl "https://hydrological.org/api/v1/datasets/canada-nhn/links?bbox=-97.8,61.4,-95.8,63.4" \
  -H "Accept: application/json"

Also available as JSON: links · manifest · dataset record