La Matanie 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 ...

, located in the

Bas-Saint-Laurent The Bas-Saint-Laurent (Lower Saint-Lawrence), is an administrative region of Quebec located along the south shore of the lower Saint Lawrence River in Quebec. The river widens at this place, later becoming a bay that discharges into the Atlanti ...

region of

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 ...

, in

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. From January 1, 1982 to March 9, 2013, it was known as Matane. The county seat is the city of

Matane Matane is a town on the Gaspé Peninsula in Quebec, Canada, on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River at the mouth of the Matane River. The town is the seat for the La Matanie Regional County Municipality. In addition to Matane itself, the ...

Subdivisions

There are 12 subdivisions within the RCM: ;Cities & Towns (1) *

;Municipalities (7) * Baie-des-Sables * Grosses-Roches * Les Méchins * Sainte-Félicité *

Sainte-Paule Sainte-Paule () is a commune in the Rhône department in eastern France. See also *Communes of the Rhône department The following is a list of the 208 communes of the Rhône department of France. This list does not includes the Lyon Metropo ...

Saint-René-de-Matane Saint-René-de-Matane is a municipality in Quebec, Canada. In addition to main population centre of Saint-René located along Quebec Route 195, the municipality also includes the communities of Le Renversé, Rivière-Matane, Ruisseau-Gagnon, and ...

* Saint-Ulric ;Parishes (3) * Saint-Adelme * Saint-Jean-de-Cherbourg * Saint-Léandre ;Unorganized Territory (1) * Rivière-Bonjour

Demographics

Population

Language

Personalities

Isabelle Boulay Isabelle Boulay, (born 6 July 1972) is a French Canadian singer. Biography Born in Sainte-Félicité, Quebec, where her parents owned a restaurant, Boulay moved to the nearby city of Matane at the start of her adolescence, and studied litera ...

, born 6 at Sainte-Félicité * Yves Sirois, born at

* Josélito Michaud, born in 1965 at

* Alain Côté, born may 3,1957 at

* Claude Picher, born May 30, 1927 at Québec died in 1998 at Saint-Léandre

Transportation

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

References

{{Authority control Regional county municipalities in Bas-Saint-Laurent Census divisions of Quebec Matane