Naskaupi River

Like the Churchill River, it drains into the western end of the estuary known as Lake Melville.

[2] The Naskapi First Nation peoples used the river to travel to Labrador.

The river's drainage basin is 4,714 square kilometres (1,820 sq mi).

The government of Newfoundland and Labrador classes the rest as "barren" or "unclassified".

When a series of 88 dikes were built, to establish the Smallwood reservoir, for the Churchill Falls Hydroelectric Project, water was diverted from the Naskaupi River to the Churchill River drainage basin.