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How large is the Mackenzie River drainage basin?
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The Mackenzie River drainage basin covers an area of approximately 697,000 square miles (1,805,200 square km). It is the largest drainage basin in Canada and is second in size on the North American continent only to the Mississippi-Missouri system.1