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Rivière Du Gouffre
The rivière du Gouffre (''English: Pit Cave River'') is a tributary of the left bank of the Saint-Laurent river, flowing into the Capitale-Nationale administrative region, Quebec (Canada). This watercourse flows through Regional County Municipality from: * Charlevoix-Est: unorganized territory of Mont-Élie (Lacoste township), municipalities of Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs and Notre-Dame-des-Monts; * Charlevoix Regional County Municipality: unorganized territory of Lac-Pibauka ( Zec des Martres), municipality of Saint-Urbain and town of Baie-Saint-Paul. This hydrographic slope has 185 lakes and 35 tributaries. The Zec des Martres attracts tens of thousands of visitors each year, particularly because of its mountain trails offering splendid views of the Gouffre River Valley, as well as sport fishing. Hydrology The Gouffre River has its source at Lac du Cœur (length: altitude: ), in the County of Charlevoix West, in the Zec des Martres which is located east of the Grands-J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baie-Saint-Paul
Baie-Saint-Paul ( 2011 Population 7,332; UA population 4,535) is a city in the Province of Quebec, Canada, on the northern shore of the Saint Lawrence River. Baie-Saint-Paul is the seat of Charlevoix Regional County Municipality. The city is situated at the mouth of the Gouffre River. It is known for its art galleries, shops and restaurants. The place gained some prominence in the 1770s when Doctor Philippe-Louis-François Badelard named a disease he was researching the "Baie-Saint-Paul maladie". This illness was the subject of one of the first medical publications done in Lower Canada. It is also where Cirque du Soleil originated back in the early 1980s and the location of the first show using the name Cirque du Soleil during "La Fete Foraine de Baie-Saint-Paul" in 1984. A visitor in the early 1800s noticed mineral springs and mineral resources in the area. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Baie-Saint-Paul had a population of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regional County Municipality
The term regional county municipality or RCM (''french: municipalité régionale de comté, MRC'') is used in Quebec, Canada to refer to one of 87 county-like political entities. In some older English translations they were called county regional municipality. Regional county municipalities are a supralocal type of regional municipality, and act as the local municipality in Unorganized area#Quebec, unorganized territories within their borders. The system of regional county municipalities was introduced beginning in 1979 to replace the List of former counties of Quebec, historic counties of Quebec. In most cases, the territory of an RCM corresponds to that of a Census geographic units of Canada, census division; however, there are a few exceptions. Some local municipalities are outside any regional county municipality (''hors MRC''). This includes some municipalities within Urban agglomerations in Quebec, urban agglomerations and also some aboriginal lands, such as Indian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Urbain, Quebec
Saint-Urbain is a parish municipality located in the Charlevoix Regional County Municipality, in Capitale-Nationale region, in Quebec, Canada. The municipality lies along Quebec Route 381 at the intersection with Quebec Route 138. History Saint-Urbain was one of the localities affected by the 1925 Charlevoix–Kamouraska earthquake. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Urbain had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. Population trend:Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011 census * Population in 2011: 1474 (2006 to 2011 population change: 1.8%) * Population in 2006: 1448 * Population in 2001: 1430 * Population in 1996: 1528 * Population in 1991: 1599 Mother tongue: * English as first language: 0% * French as first language: 100% * English and French as first language: 0% * Other as first langu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago River
The Chicago River is a system of rivers and canals with a combined length of that runs through the city of Chicago, including its center (the Chicago Loop). Though not especially long, the river is notable because it is one of the reasons for Chicago's geographic importance: the related Chicago Portage is a link between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River Basin, and ultimately the Gulf of Mexico. The river is also noteworthy for its natural and human-engineered history. In 1887, the Illinois General Assembly decided to reverse the flow of the Chicago River through civil engineering by taking water from Lake Michigan and discharging it into the Mississippi River watershed, partly in response to concerns created by an extreme weather event in 1885 that threatened the city's water supply. In 1889, the Illinois General Assembly created the Chicago Sanitary District (now the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District) to replace the Illinois and Michigan Canal with the Chica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Lawrence River
The St. Lawrence River (french: Fleuve Saint-Laurent, ) is a large river in the middle latitudes of North America. Its headwaters begin flowing from Lake Ontario in a (roughly) northeasterly direction, into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, connecting the American Great Lakes to the North Atlantic Ocean, and forming the primary drainage outflow of the Great Lakes Basin. The river traverses the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec, as well as the U.S. state of New York, and demarcates part of the international boundary between Canada and the United States. It also provides the foundation for the commercial St. Lawrence Seaway. Names Originally known by a variety of names by local First Nations, the St. Lawrence became known in French as ''le fleuve Saint-Laurent'' (also spelled ''St-Laurent'') in 1604 by Samuel de Champlain. Opting for the ''grande riviere de sainct Laurens'' and ''fleuve sainct Laurens'' in his writings and on his maps, de Champlain supplanted previous Fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montmorency River
The Montmorency River is a tributary of North-East bank of St. Lawrence river, flowing in the administrative region of Capitale-Nationale, in the province of Quebec, Canada. The course of the river successively crosses the regional county municipality of: *MRC La Côte-de-Beaupré Regional County Municipality: Lac-Jacques-Cartier, Château-Richer, L'Ange-Gardien, Boischatel; *MRC La Jacques-Cartier Regional County Municipality: Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval * Agglomération de Québec. It drains into the Saint Lawrence River, about downstream from Quebec City. It is especially known for the impressive Montmorency Falls near its mouth. It has an average flow of . Typical average summer flow is about , whereas during spring run-off, the river could swell anywhere from . Above is considered an exceptional flood condition, and the Montmorency experienced a record flow of in November 1966. Geography The Montmorency River flows from Lake Montmorency in a southerly direction through th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malbaie River
The Malbaie River in the Charlevoix region empties into the Saint Lawrence River at La Malbaie. Until 1985 the river was used to transport logs downstream. It flows through a steep valley known as Les Hautes Gorges. A sugar maple and American elm forest grows in the gorge and has remained largely undisturbed for hundreds of years. Its course successively crosses Grands-Jardins National Park, Laurentides Wildlife Reserve, Zec des Martres, Hautes-Gorges-de-la-Rivière-Malbaie National Park and Zec du Lac-au-Sable. It winds first towards the north-east, towards the east, then towards the south-east, in a narrow and deep glacial valley, for 161 kilometers and a drop of 820 meters. Its course forms a semicircle stretching towards the north and completely encircling in its center the hydrographic slope of the Rivière du Gouffre. For example, there is a distance of between the mouth of the rivières des Martres and the mouth of a stream flowing on the east bank of the upper part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hautes-Gorges-de-la-Rivière-Malbaie National Park
The Hautes-Gorges-de-la-Rivière-Malbaie National Park is a provincial park in the Charlevoix region of Quebec, Canada. Centring on the Malbaie River Gorge, it is the centrepiece of the UNESCO Charlevoix biosphere reserve. It is administered by the Société des établissements de plein air du Québec (Sépaq). The park can be reached via a local road, northwards from Quebec Route 138, Route 138 in Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs, Quebec, Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs. The park has a total area of and was created as a provincial park in 2000. The Grands-Ormes Ecological Reserve is an enclave within the park. The park lies within the Eastern forest-boreal transition ecoregion. Description This provincial park is represented by a deep valley in high mountains with steep walls over in height. There are many waterfalls and falls, the highest of which is , as well as many mammals typical of the boreal forest, including the American marten and the Boreal woodland caribou which frequent the isolate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grands-Jardins National Park
Grands-Jardins National Park is a provincial park, located in the Unorganized Territory of Lac-Pikauba, Quebec, Lac-Pikauba, in the Charlevoix Regional County Municipality, an administrative region of Capitale-Nationale, in Quebec, Canada. The Grands-Jardins National Park is a protected area for the conservation of the natural heritage of the Charlevoix region in which certain human activities are permitted. It is one of the central areas of the , status granted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO in 1988, just seven years after the park was created. The park is managed by the Quebec government thanks to the Société des établissements de plein air du Québec (SÉPAQ). This Charlevoix park covers an area of accessible by Saint-Urbain, Quebec, Saint-Urbain in the region of Capitale-Nationale. The closest town to the park is Baie-Saint-Paul. Main attractions and activities It offers several activities to park visitors in both summer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Urbain (Quebec)
Saint-Urbain is a parish municipality located in the Charlevoix Regional County Municipality, in Capitale-Nationale region, in Quebec, Canada. The municipality lies along Quebec Route 381 at the intersection with Quebec Route 138. History Saint-Urbain was one of the localities affected by the 1925 Charlevoix–Kamouraska earthquake. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Urbain had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. Population trend:Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011 census * Population in 2011: 1474 (2006 to 2011 population change: 1.8%) * Population in 2006: 1448 * Population in 2001: 1430 * Population in 1996: 1528 * Population in 1991: 1599 Mother tongue: * English as first language: 0% * French as first language: 100% * English and French as first language: 0% * Other as first langu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zec Des Martres
The Zec des Martres is a "zone d'exploitation contrôlée" (controlled harvesting zone), in the unorganized territory of Lac-Pikauba, in Charlevoix Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Capitale-Nationale, Quebec, Canada. The Zec is located in public lands. It is managed by the Association de plein air des Martres, which is a non-profit organization. The Zec has a mission to develop the land and make it available to the general public for outdoor activities including: hiking, quad/snowmobile, camping, hunting, fishing and watching scenery, flora and fauna. Geography Founded in 1978, the Zec des Martres covers 424 square kilometers and includes 219 lakes. The Zec is entirely in forested area. The Zec is bordered by the Laurentides Wildlife Reserve to the west; the Grands-Jardins National Park (Parc national des Grands-Jardins), to the south-west; the Municipality of Saint-Urbain, to the southeast of Zec du Lac-au-Sable, to the east; and the Hautes-Gorges ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Notre-Dame-des-Monts
Notre-Dame-des-Monts is a municipality of Charlevoix-Est Regional County Municipality, in the Capitale-Nationale region of Quebec, Canada. Geography As its name suggests, the territory of the municipality is dotted with mountains sometimes reaching . The River du Gouffre forms its western boundary. It has an area of . History The municipality was founded in 1935 under the name of ''canton de Sales''. In 1947 the parish of Notre-Dame-des-Monts was canonically erected, and the municipality took its name the following year. One can observe from the village, a series of mountains resembling a woman lying on her back. The name given to this series of mountains is “La Noyée”. Regional legend says it is the profile of an Indian girl lying on her back, drowned as she crossed Lake Nairne to meet her beloved, a white man from the nearby hamlet. Demographics Population Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 320 (total dwellings: 350) Language Mother tongue: * English as f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
