Minganie is a

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in the

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region of

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. It includes Anticosti Island. Its seat is Havre-Saint-Pierre. It has an area of according to Quebec's '' Ministère des Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l'Occupation du territoire'' (which includes coastal, lake, and river water territory and also disputed land within Labrador), or a land area of according to

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. The population from the Canada 2011 Census was 6,582 and in

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it was 11,323. The majority live in Havre-Saint-Pierre. Minganie and the neighbouring

Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent is a regional county municipality in the Côte-Nord region of far-eastern Quebec, Canada. It includes all communities along the Gulf of Saint Lawrence between the Natashquan River and the Newfoundland and Labrador border. ...

are grouped into the single

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of Minganie—Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent (known as Minganie–Basse-Côte-Nord before 2010). The combined population at the Canada 2011 Census was 11,708. Until 2002, Minganie RCM encompassed the entire lower north shore right up to

Blanc-Sablon Blanc-Sablon is the easternmost community in Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality, in the administrative région of Côte-Nord, in the province of Quebec, Canada. With a population of 1,122 inhabitants in 2021, it is the most p ...

. In 2002, it lost all the coastal communities east of the

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when the Basse-Côte-Nord Territory was formed. In July 2010, the RCM lost another 44% of its territory when the (uninhabited) Petit-Mécatina

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was transferred to the newly created

, which superseded Basse-Côte-Nord.

Subdivisions

There are 9 subdivisions and 2 native reserves within the RCM: ;Municipalities (8) * Aguanish * Baie-Johan-Beetz * Havre-Saint-Pierre *

L'Île-d'Anticosti ; moe, Notiskuan; mic, Natigostec , sobriquet = , image_name = RiviereHuileAnticosti.jpg , image_caption = Salmon fisherman on Rivière à l'Huile , image_map ...

* Longue-Pointe-de-Mingan * Natashquan * Rivière-au-Tonnerre * Rivière-Saint-Jean ;Unorganized Territory (1) * Lac-Jérôme ;Native Reserves (2)
* Mingan *

Nutashkuan Nutashkuan ( INAC) or Natashquan (CGNDB) (sometimes Natashquan 1) is a First Nations reserve in the Canadian province of Quebec, belonging to the Première Nation des Innus de Nutashkuan band. The reserve is located on the north shore of the Gu ...

Transportation

Access Routes

Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border: * Autoroutes ** None * Principal Highways ** * Secondary Highways ** None * External Routes ** None

River basins

There are a number of large rivers that flow in a generally north-south direction through Minganie to enter the Gulf. Near the coast the river basins tend to narrow in towards the river mouth, and between their mouths are areas that drain into the Gulf through smaller streams. From west to east, the larger river basins, which may cover parts of

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, Sept-Rivières or Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent, are:

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