Kinuso facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Kinuso ᑭᓄᓭᐤ kinosêw
Hamlet
Kinuso Location in Alberta
Country	Canada
Province	Alberta
Region	Northern Alberta
Census Division	No. 17
Municipal district	Big Lakes County
Area  (2021)
• Land	0.58 km2 (0.22 sq mi)
Elevation	610 m (2,000 ft)
Population  (2021)
• Total	150
• Density	257.8/km2 (668/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC−7 (MST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−6 (MDT)
Highways	2
Waterways	Lesser Slave Lake

Kinuso (Cree: ᑭᓄᓭᐤ, kinosêw) is a hamlet in northern Alberta, Canada within Big Lakes County, and surrounded by the Swan River First Nation reserve. It is located approximately 48 kilometres (30 mi) west of Slave Lake and 71 km east of High Prairie along Highway 2, south of the southern shore of Lesser Slave Lake.

The name Kinuso comes from the Cree word kinosew, meaning fish.

Kinuso was incorporated as a village until it dissolved on September 1, 2009.

Demographics

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As a designated place in the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Kinuso recorded a population of 182 living in 77 of its 102 total private dwellings, a change of -34.1% from its 2011 population of 276. With a land area of 0.59 km² (0.23 sq mi), it had a population density of 308.5/km² (799/sq mi) in 2016.