La Matapédia 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 ...

(RCM) in 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 at the base of 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 ...

, 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. Its seat is in Amqui. It is named after the

Matapédia River The Matapedia River (french: Rivière Matapédia) is a river in the Matapedia Valley in the province of Quebec, Canada. It runs on from Matapedia Lake down to the village of Matapédia where it empties into the left bank of Restigouche River on ...

which runs through the western part of the RCM. La Matapédia was created on January 1, 1982, succeeding from the former Matapédia County Municipality. The region was subject to one of the last waves of colonization in Quebec, settled mostly by people from the Lower Saint-Lawrence between 1850 and 1950. It is a rural region in the

Matapedia Valley The Matapedia Valley (French: ''vallée de la Matapédia'') was formed by the Chic-Choc Mountains of eastern Québec. Its name is derived from the river that traverses the valley, as well as the lake that lies in its center. It is situated in ...

crossed by the

Notre Dame Mountains The Notre Dame Mountains are a portion of the Appalachian Mountains, extending from the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec to the Green Mountains of Vermont. The range runs from northeast to southwest, forming the southern edge of the St. Lawrence River ...

. Agriculture and logging, and its related industries (forestry and wood products), are the main economic activities.

Subdivisions

There are 25 subdivisions within the RCM: ;Cities & Towns (2) * Amqui *

Causapscal Causapscal () is a city in the Canadian province of Quebec, located in La Matapédia Regional County Municipality. It is located at the confluence of the Matapédia and Causapscal Rivers, along Quebec Route 132, approximately halfway between Mont- ...

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* Lac-au-Saumon * Sainte-Florence *

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* Saint-Vianney *

Sayabec Sayabec () is a municipality located in the La Matapédia Regional County Municipality (RCM) in Bas-Saint-Laurent, Quebec, Canada. It is located in the Matapédia Valley between the Chic-Choc Mountains of the Appalachian near Lake Matapédia. Th ...

Val-Brillant Val-Brillant is a municipality in eastern Quebec, Canada, at the base of the Gaspé peninsula. On the southern shores of the Lake Matapedia, Val-Brillant is part of the Matapédia Valley. The place was previously known by many other names: La ...

;Parishes (8) * Saint-Alexandre-des-Lacs * Saint-Cléophas * Saint-Damase * Sainte-Irène * Saint-Léon-le-Grand * Saint-Moïse * Saint-Tharcisius * Saint-Zénon-du-Lac-Humqui ;Villages (1) * Saint-Noël ;Unorganized Territory (7) * Lac-Alfred * Lac-Casault * Lac-Matapédia * Rivière-Patapédia-Est * Rivière-Vaseuse * Routhierville * Ruisseau-des-Mineurs

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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

{{DEFAULTSORT:La Matapedia Regional County Municipality, Quebec Canada geography articles needing translation from French Wikipedia