page_title: Geography of Ottawa
section_title: Rivers and creeks
hierarchical_section_title: Geography of Ottawa / Rivers and creeks
context_page_description: This is the outline of the geography of the city of Ottawa, the capital of Canada. Ottawa's current borders were formed in 2001, when the former city of Ottawa amalgamated with the ten other municipalities within the former Regional Municipality of Ottawa–Carleton. Ottawa is now a single-tiered census division, home to 870,250 people.
  The city centre is located at the confluence of the Ottawa and Rideau Rivers. The Ottawa River forms the entire northern boundary of the city which it shares with the province] of Quebec's municipalities of Pontiac and Gatineau. The northern boundary begins in the west at Arnprior and continues east to Rockland. The boundary then turns south in a straight line, separating the former Township of Cumberland and the City of Clarence-Rockland. It then turns west in another straight line separating the former Township of Cumberland with the municipalities of The Nation and Russell. It then turns south separating Russell from the former Township of Osgoode. That boundary runs south in a straight line, then turns west separating Osgoode from the municipality of North Dundas.
context_section_description: Tributaries of the Ottawa River (from east to west):
  Becketts Creek
  Cardinal Creek
  Taylor Creek
  Bilberry Creek
  Green's Creek
  Mud Creek
  Borthwick Creek
  Nicolet Drain
  Ramsay Creek
  McEwen Creek
  Rideau River
  Rideau Canal (artificial)
  Brown's Inlet
  Patterson Creek
  Graham Creek
  Still Water Creek
  Watts Creek
  Shirley's Brook
  Constance Creek
  Carp River
  Mississippi River
  Cartwrights Creek
  Cody Creek
  Madawaska River (mouth not in Ottawa)
  Tributaries of the Rideau River (from north to south):
  Sawmill Creek
  Nepean Creek
  Black Rapids Creek
  Mosquito Creek
  Jock River
  Mahoney Creek
  Nichols Creek
  Kings Creek
  Mud Creek
  Steven Creek
  Cranberry Creek
  McDermot Drain (mouth not in Ottawa)
  Brassills Creek
  Rideau Creek
  Other rivers and creeks within City of Ottawa:
  Bear Brook
  South Indian Creek
  Shaws Creek
  McKinnons Creek
  North Castor River
  Black Creek
  Middle Castor River
  South Castor River
caption: The Jock River
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