Maskinongé River
The Maskinongé River is located north of the administrative region of Lanaudière and west of the administrative region of Mauricie, in Quebec, in Canada. The river has a total length of 40 km. It takes its source in Maskinongé Lake, located in Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon, Quebec, Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon. It crosses the municipalities of Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon, Saint-Gabriel, and Saint-Didace in the region of Lanaudière; then Saint-Justin, Quebec, Saint-Justin, Louiseville, and Maskinongé, Quebec, Maskinongé before pour into the north shore of Lake Saint-Pierre at the height of this municipality. Toponymy The name of the river comes from the muskellunge ("Esox masquinongy"), a species of Esox, pike from North America. Its name comes from the Algonquian languages, Algonquin and means "deformed pike". Geography Course The Maskinongé River begins its course at an altitude of 142 m in Lake Maskinongé, lake of the same name. It then flows south-east for a distance ...
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Maskinongé, Quebec
Maskinongé is a municipality in the Mauricie region of the province of Quebec in Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot .... References External links * Incorporated places in Mauricie Municipalities in Quebec Canada geography articles needing translation from French Wikipedia {{Quebec-geo-stub ...
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