La Haute-Gaspésie Regional County Municipality
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La Haute-Gaspésie () is a
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 r ...
in the Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine region of eastern
Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...
, Canada, on the
Gaspé peninsula The Gaspé Peninsula, also known as Gaspesia (; ), is a peninsula along the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River that extends from the Matapedia Valley in Quebec, Canada, into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. It is separated from New Brunswick o ...
. The regional county municipality seat is in
Sainte-Anne-des-Monts Sainte-Anne-des-Monts () is a city in the Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine region of the province of Quebec in Canada. Sainte-Anne-des-Monts, a small city between the Chic-Choc Mountains and sea, is on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence river ...
. Prior to May 27, 2000, it was known as Denis-Riverin Regional County Municipality.


Subdivisions

There are 10 subdivisions within the RCM: ;Cities & Towns (2) *
Cap-Chat Cap-Chat is a town in the Canadian province of Québec, in the Regional County Municipality of Haute-Gaspésie, and in the administrative region of Gaspésie-Îles-de-la-Madeleine. Cap-Chat is found west of Sainte-Anne-des-Monts. , Cap-Chat's p ...
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Sainte-Anne-des-Monts Sainte-Anne-des-Monts () is a city in the Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine region of the province of Quebec in Canada. Sainte-Anne-des-Monts, a small city between the Chic-Choc Mountains and sea, is on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence river ...
;Municipalities (4) * La Martre * Rivière-à-Claude * Sainte-Madeleine-de-la-Rivière-Madeleine * Saint-Maxime-du-Mont-Louis ;Villages (2) * Marsoui * Mont-Saint-Pierre ;Unorganized Territory (2) * Coulée-des-Adolphe * Mont-Albert


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Access Routes

Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:Official Transport Quebec Road Map
/ref> *Autoroutes **None *Principal Highways ** ** *Secondary Highways ** *External Routes **None


See also

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List of regional county municipalities and equivalent territories in Quebec This is a list of the regional county municipalities (RCM or MRC) and equivalent territories (TE) in the province of Quebec, Canada. They are given along with their geographical codes as specified by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Regions ...


References



Regional county municipalities in Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine Census divisions of Quebec {{Quebec-geo-stub