La Mitis 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 Bas-Saint-Laurent region 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 on the

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. It is named for the

Mitis River The Mitis River (french: Rivière Mitis) is a salmon river in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, Canada. It flows to the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River. There are two hydroelectric dams on the river at a point where a waterfall used t ...

(''The Mitis'') which has its source in the region (at Lac Inférieur) and flows through the central part of the region before emptying into the

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, connectin ...

. The county seat is in

Mont-Joli Mont-Joli () is a city in the La Mitis Regional County Municipality within the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, Canada. It is the county seat. The city is located east of Rimouski near the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River. History In ...

Subdivisions

There are 18 subdivisions within the RCM: ;Cities & Towns (2) * Métis-sur-Mer *

;Municipalities (6) *

Grand-Métis Grand-Métis is a municipality in the La Mitis Regional County Municipality within the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, Canada. It is situated where the Mitis River meets the Saint Lawrence River, and was developed from 1818 by the pioneering ...

* Les Hauteurs * Padoue * Sainte-Angèle-de-Mérici * Sainte-Luce * Saint-Gabriel-de-Rimouski ;Parishes (7) *

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* Saint-Charles-Garnier *

Saint-Donat Saint-Donat (; Auvergnat: ''Sent Donat'') is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne in central France. See also *Communes of the Puy-de-Dôme department The following is a list of the 464 communes of the Puy-de-Dôme department ...

* Sainte-Flavie * Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc * Saint-Joseph-de-Lepage * Saint-Octave-de-Métis ;Villages (1) *

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;Unorganized Territory (2) * Lac-à-la-Croix * Lac-des-Eaux-Mortes

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