Les Etchemins 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
Chaudière-Appalaches
Chaudière-Appalaches () is an administrative region in Quebec, Canada. It comprises most of what is historically known as the "Beauce" (french: La Beauce; compare with the electoral district of Beauce). It is named for the Chaudière River and ...
region of eastern
Quebec
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, Canada. It is named for the
Etchemin River
The Etchemin River is a river in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of eastern Quebec.
It gave its name to Les Etchemins Regional County Municipality. The river itself was named for the Abenaki native people of the area who the French called "le ...
which finds its source in the region, as well as
Etchemin Lake.
Lac-Etchemin is the seat of the RCM. Les Etchemins can be found on the
Maine
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border, southeast of
Quebec City
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.
Subdivisions
There are 13 subdivisions within the RCM:
;Municipalities (10)
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Lac-Etchemin
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Saint-Benjamin
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Sainte-Aurélie
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Sainte-Justine
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Sainte-Rose-de-Watford
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Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague
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Saint-Luc-de-Bellechasse
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Saint-Magloire
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Saint-Prosper
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Saint-Zacharie
Saint-Zacharie (; Provençal dialect, Provençal: ''Sant Jacariá'') is a Communes of France, commune in the Var (département), Var Departments of France, department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Regions of France, region in southeastern Fran ...
;Parishes (3)
*
Saint-Camille-de-Lellis
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Saint-Cyprien
*
Sainte-Sabine
Sainte-Sabine () is a commune in the Côte-d'Or department in eastern France.
Population
See also
*Communes of the Côte-d'Or department
The following is a list of the 698 communes of the Côte-d'Or department of France.
The communes c ...
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
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* Autoroutes
** None
* Principal Highways
** None
* Secondary Highways
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* External Routes
** None
See also
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References
External links
Les Etchemins Regional County Municipality
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Regional county municipalities in Chaudière-Appalaches
Census divisions of Quebec